New paper - Contrasting climate niches among co-occurring sub-dominant forbs of the sagebrush steppe

Sarah Barga, Beth Leger, and myself just got a paper accepted in Diversity and Distributions!  It is titled "Contrasting climate niches among co-occurring sub-dominant forbs of the sagebrush steppe". The paper projects species distribution models for ten sub-dominant herbaceous forbs in the Great Basin. We then looked at niche overlap and found very little between the ten species. There was no relationship between phylogentic distance and niche overlap. We also looked at how species responded to temperature and precipitation variability and found that there were differences among different life forms. We hope that our paper findings will help conservationists understand which species may be more or less suitable to climatic variability.