
Hubbard, Justin
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2023-09-25
<p><strong>Aim</strong>: We assess climate similarity among global freshwater and terrestrial ecoregions under historical and future climate scenarios to determine where climate change will impact the climate filter of invasion process.</p>
<p><strong>Location</strong>: Global.</p>
<p><strong>Methods</strong>: We used the Climatch algorithm to conduct a climate-match analysis to quantify the climate similarity between freshwater and terrestrial ecoregions of the world. Climate match was modelled between all freshwater and terrestrial ecoregions. The analysis was conducted under historical climates and projected climates of 2090 under three shared-socioeconomic pathways SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0, SSP5-8.5. Climate matches of each ecoregion were presented as mean climate match to all other ecoregions. Friedman’s non-parametric rank sum two-way analysis of variance with repeated measures was used to examine differences in climate match between climate scenarios. </p>