Krishna Girish

@krishnasg.bsky.social

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PhD student at ISEM, University of Montpellier, France working on climate tipping points & biodiversity, and associated sidequests prev: BS-MS at IISER Pune, MS thesis at MIT enjoys theoretical ecology, birds, quiz, poetry, patisserie, indie rock he/him

A figure explaining the computation of species climate limits in the ClimLimits database, with the example of a fennec fox. Step 1 includes collecting historical climate records of temperature and precipitation and species ranges. Step 2 entails computing local climate limits as the most extreme conditions in each grid-cell, and clipping this to the species' range. Finally, the third step is to aggregate all local climate limits over the species' range and find the maxima/minima in 44 different limits to produce a final set of realized climate limits for the species.