Check List 11(4): e19316, doi: 10.15560/11.4.1717
Progressively approaching the distribution of Passiflora ischnoclada (Passifloraceae) from a single occurrence record
Renato De Giovanni‡, Luís Carlos Bernacci§‡ Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental, CRIA, Brazil§ IAC - Instituto Agronômico, Centro de Recursos Genéticos, Brazil
Corresponding author: Renato Giovanni ( renato@cria.org.br ) © 2017 Renato Giovanni, Luís Bernacci. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
De Giovanni R, Bernacci L (2015) Progressively approaching the distribution of Passiflora ischnoclada (Passifloraceae) from a single occurrence record. Check List 11(4): 1717. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.4.1717 |  |
Abstract
Until recently, Passiflora ischnoclada was only known from a single occurrence record. In this paper we describe how different ecological niche modelling techniques were successively used to generate better potential distribution models for the species and guide field work. At each step, new records were found until the species’ real distribution was approximated based on a model ensemble created with five different algorithms. The estimated distribution is concentrated on a single area of 84 km2 where the species is considered endangered.
Keywords
ecological niche modelling; conservation; risk assessment