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Noah Wightman

McGill UniversityORCID 0009-0004-6262-8327Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:ecology & biodiversity· 1 Organism:multiple species· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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EcologybioRxivPreprintDec 14, 2025

Where Climate Change and Sampling Bias Collide: Challenges of Predicting Biodiversity Change in Canada

Noah Wightman, Isaac Eckert, Brian Leung, Laura J. Pollock

The paper evaluates bias-correction methods for species distribution models using OCR validation on Canadian terrestrial vertebrates, finding improved performance against independent data but large richness discrepancies and reduced future projection variation due to climate shifts.

DOI 10.64898/2025.12.11.693756

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