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Uncertainty in thermal tolerances and climatic debt - Correspondence [1]

In their comment, Rodríguez-Sánchez et al. claim that our conclusions on the climatic debt of birds and butterflies are premature because introducing statistical and biological uncertainties in species-specific thermal tolerance (species temperature index, STI) would blur the temporal trend in the community temperature index CTI). Here, we show why our results are not affected by this uncertainty and further assess the STI uncertainty and its consequences. (Correspondence)

Publication Date: 
01/09/2012
Vincent Devictor [2], Chris van Swaay [3], Tom Brereton & et al [4]
Nature Climate Change [5]
2
9
638-639
Tags:
Climate Change [6], Climate Science [7], Debt [8], Butterflies [9], Birds [10], Climate Impacts [11], Fauna [12], Europe [13], Biodiversity [14]
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