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Microclimate alters the picture

Nature Climate Change volume 13, pages 423–424 (2023)Cite this article

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The speed at which terrestrial organisms are shifting their ranges in response to climate is consistently lower than that predicted by models. However, the use of microclimate-based, rather than macroclimate-based, predictions virtually eliminates these discrepancies.

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Fig. 1: The influence of microclimate.

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