Climate-Driven Shifts in the Distribution of Valonia Oak from the Last Glaciation to the Antropocene
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Doç. Dr. Ali Uğur Özcan Çankırı Karatekin Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Doç. Dr. Derya Gülçin Aydın Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Javier López-Tirado Universidad De Córdoba, İspanya
Prof. Dr. Sezgin AYAN Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Jean Stephan Université Libanaise, Lübnan
Javier Velázquez Universidad Católica De Ávila, İspanya
Prof. Dr. İhsan Çiçek Ankara Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Doç. Dr. Mehmet Sezgin Çankiri Karatekin Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Kerim Çiçek Universidad Católica De Ávila, İspanya
Makale Türü Açık Erişim Özgün Makale (SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale)
Dergi Adı Forests (Q2)
Dergi ISSN 1999-4907 Wos Dergi Scopus Dergi
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI-Expanded
Makale Dili Türkçe Basım Tarihi 01-2025
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa 16 / 5 / 776–0 DOI 10.3390/f16050776
Makale Linki https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/16/5/776
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The Quercus genus is found across a broad latitudinal range, and its spread in heterogeneous ecosystems is influenced by environmental, genetic, and anthropogenic factors. However, Mediterranean oak ecosystems, in particular, have been significantly impacted by climate-driven shifts. These shifts reshape the composition and spatial configuration of a great number of species. Here, this study evaluates the impact of climate change on the habitat suitability of Valonia oak (Quercus ithaburensis subsp. macrolepis (Kotschy) Hedge & Yalt.) and particularly focuses on understanding whether its population is native or was introduced to the Karagüney Mountains, Türkiye. Using ecological niche modeling with MaxEnt and climate data from CHELSA-TraCE21k (a 1 km climate time series), we built 120 models to analyze the habitat suitability of Valonia oak across different climatic periods from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) (21 ka BP) to the present. The results indicate that habitat suitability is primarily influenced by temperature- and precipitation-related variables. In fact, temperature fluctuations clearly affect the target species of this study. The most significant factors are the mean diurnal temperature range (bio2; 33.1%), precipitation in the wettest month (bio13; 19%), and mean annual temperature (bio1; 16.7%). Paleoclimatic predictions show that suitable habitats contracted during the early Holocene but expanded afterward, with current distributions aligning more closely with the natural range. In other words, it can be stated that Valonia oak’s habitat suitability has gradually improved from the LGM to the present, with both the total and natural …
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ecological niche modeling | Karagüney Mountains | macro- and microrefugia | maximum entropy | paleoclimatic projections
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Climate-Driven Shifts in the Distribution of Valonia Oak from the Last Glaciation to the Antropocene

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