The Ecological Forecast Horizon, and examples of its uses and determinants
Owen L Petchey, Mikael Pontarp, Thomas M Massie, Sonia Kéfi, Arpat Ozgul, Maja Weilenmann, Gian Marco Palamara, Florian Altermatt, Blake J Matthews, Jonathan M Levine, Dylan Z Childs, Brian J McGill, Michael E Schaepman, Bernhard Schmid, Piet Spaak, , Ian S Pearse
The paper introduces the ecological forecast horizon as a framework to assess the limits of ecological predictions across time, space, and phylogeny, using case studies to illustrate its applications and determinants.
bioRxiv · Mar 29, 2015Ecology