Figure 2: Comparison between predicted and observed abundance reveals the ecological importance of climatic covariates.
From: Direct effects dominate responses to climate perturbations in grassland plant communities
Comparison of observed (circles) and predicted mean cover from simulations with an IBM that included both climatic covariates and random year effects (squares) or climatic covariates only (triangles). One species from each study site is presented here: (a) B. rothrockii in Arizona, (b) A. tripartita in Idaho, (c) B. curtipendula in Kansas, (d) B. gracilis in Montana and (e) B. eriopoda in New Mexico. Results for the remaining species are shown in Supplementary Fig. 1.
