Outstanding Challenges in the Transferability of Ecological Models

Affiliations

• ¹ School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford, Manchester, UK; Centre for Excellence in Environmental Decisions, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; Joint first authors. Electronic address: K.L.Yates@Salford.ac.uk.
• ² School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia; Joint first authors.
• ³ ARC Centre for Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
• ⁴ Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ⁵ School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford, Manchester, UK.
• ⁶ Haworth Conservation Ltd, Bunessan, Isle of Mull, Scotland.
• ⁷ Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, GL2 7BT, UK.
• ⁸ Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, #410-698 Seymour Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 3K6, Canada.
• ⁹ CIBIO/InBIO-Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade de Évora, 7004-516 Évora, Portugal.
• ¹⁰ Biometry & Environmental System Analysis, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacher Str. 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
• ¹¹ School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.
• ¹² School of Biological and Marine Sciences, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK.
• ¹³ Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 39762, USA.
• ¹⁴ Australian Institute of Marine Science & UWA Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
• ¹⁵ Griffith Climate Change Response Program, Building G01, Room 2.25, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Parklands Drive, Southport, QLD 4222, Australia.
• ¹⁶ ZHAW Zürich University of Applied Sciences, CH-8820 Wädenswil, Switzerland.
• ¹⁷ Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, AERL Building, 2202 Main Mall Vancouver, BC, Canada; SciTech Environmental Consulting, 2136 Napier Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2N9, Canada.
• ¹⁸ Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
• ¹⁹ Finnish Environment Institute, Biodiversity Centre, PO Box 140, FIN-00251 Helsinki, Finland.
• ²⁰ DHI, Ecology and Environment Department, Agern Allé 5, DK-2970 Hørsholm, Denmark.
• ²¹ The Environment Institute and School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
• ²² Center for Environment and Water, Research Institute, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia.
• ²³ Instituto per l'Ambiente Marino Costiero, IAMC-CNR, Mazara del Vallo, Trapani, Italy.
• ²⁴ CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
• ²⁵ Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA; UMR MARBEC (IRD, Ifremer, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, Av. Jean Monnet, CS 30171, 34203 Sète, France.
• ²⁶ Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB No 3, Townsville 4810, QLD, Australia; The Environment Institute and School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
• ²⁷ Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
• ²⁸ Departamento de Sistemas y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria, s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain.
• ²⁹ National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), 301 Evans Bay Parade, Wellington 6012, New Zealand.
• ³⁰ Marine Geomatics Research Lab, Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada.
• ³¹ RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, The David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK.
• ³² Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.
• ³³ University of California, Merced, 5200 N Lake Rd, Merced, CA 95230, USA.
• ³⁴ School of Science & Engineering, The University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, QLD 4558, Australia.
• ³⁵ School of Science & Engineering, The University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, QLD 4558, Australia; Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
• ³⁶ Department of Ocean Sciences and Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL A1C 5S7, Canada.
• ³⁷ Department of Aquatic Resources, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Stångholmsvägen 2, 178 93 Drottningholm, Sweden.
• ³⁸ Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA), Grenoble F-38000, France.
• ³⁹ Marine Mammal Institute, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, 2030 Southeast Marine Science Dr., Newport, OR 97365, USA.
• ⁴⁰ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2, Canada; Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, ME 04101, USA.
• ⁴¹ Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30601, USA.
• ⁴² Biology, School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.
• ⁴³ Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Parks Canada Agency, Box 280, Ucluelet, BC V0R 3A0, Canada.
• ⁴⁴ Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Dept. Landscape Dynamics, Zuercherstrasse 111, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geography Dept., Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Germany.
• ⁴⁵ School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia; IOMRC and The University of Western Australia Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.