Modeling future habitats to identify suitable sites for ex situ conservation of the endangered palm Metroxylon vitiense (H. Wendl.) H. Wendl. ex Benth. & Hook. f. in Fiji

• Published in: Tropical ecology Vol. 63; no. 4; pp. 596 - 603
• Main Authors: Itaya, Akemi, Miyamori, Masamitsu, Ehara, Hiroshi, Naito, Hitoshi, Rounds, Isaac, Naikatini, Alivereti, Tuiwawa, Marika
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi Springer India 01.12.2022; Scientific Publishers
• Subjects: Annual precipitation; Biodiversity; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Climate change; Coastal ecology; Coastal zone; Coasts; Conservation; Conservation Biology/Ecology; Ecology; Ecosystems; Endangered species; Entropy; Geographical distribution; Habitats; Landscape Ecology; Learning programs; Life Sciences; Machine learning; Maximum entropy; Metroxylon; Monomorium vitiense; Precipitation; Probability distribution; Research Article; Sea level; Transplantation; Fiji; Climate change; Sea level rise; Endangered taxa; MaxEnt; Habitat loss; Ex situ conservation

Climate change and human-centered development have endangered the survival of many species. The purpose of this study was to investigate, using MaxEnt, changes in the habitat suitable for the endangered palm Metroxylon vitiense (H. Wendl.) H. Wendl. ex Benth. & Hook. f. in Fiji resulting from a...