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Published on: September 4, 2016
Comment on "Interspecific competition limits bird species' ranges in tropical mountains"
Dingliang Xing1,2,3, Jian Zhang1, Fangliang He1,4
1ECNU-Alberta Joint Lab for Biodiversity Study, Tiantong Forest Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
Abstract:
Freeman et al. (Reports, 22 July 2022, p. 416) argue that interspecific competition rather than climate is the leading driver of bird species' elevational ranges. A reanalysis of their data shows no support for the competition hypothesis, but a strong effect of climate seasonality on species ranges. Their results are artifacts arising from a suboptimal model that misses important variables.
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