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	Climatic niche defines geographical distribution of Mesobuthus eupeus mongolicus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in Gobi desert
	Shi Chengmin; Liang Hongbin; Altanchimeg Dorjsuren; Nonnaizab; Chuluunjav Chultem; Zhang Dexing
来源期刊	Zoological Systematics
ISSN	2095-6827
出版年	2015
卷号	40 期号:3 页码:339-348
英文摘要	Scorpion fauna of Mongolia, which are thus far poorly understood, were investigated country-wide during a China-Mongolia joint field survey from 2009 to 2012. Of the total 134 sites we surveyed, scorpions were found at 10 sites in the southern Gobi regions, Umnugovi and Dornogovi Aimags (Provinces) of Mongolia. All scorpions collected from Mongolia belong to a single species, Mesobuthus eupeus mongolicus. Combining with its occurrence records in China, we assembled 98 presence data for M. eupeus mongolicus and predicted its geographical distribution using ecological niche modeling approach. This species occurs exclusively in the arid deserts and steppes, ranging from the west extreme of Junggar Basin (Xinjiang) to the Gobi deserts in North China and South Mongolia, with its distributional margins set by the Altai Mountains in the north, the Tian-Shan Mountains and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the south, and the Loess Plateau in the east. We found that ecological niche models could accurately predict (AUC =0.880 0.016) geographic distribution of M. eupeus mongolicus. Our results show that climate is a reliable predictor for the geographic range of M. eupeus mongolicus, implying that climate might have exerted a dominant control over the natural occurrence of this species. A brief note on the ecology of M. eupeus mongolicus was also provided.
英文关键词	Scorpion fauna ecological niche modeling prey Mongolia China
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	CSCD
WOS研究方向	Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
CSCD记录号	CSCD:5476703
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/335524
作者单位	Shi Chengmin, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China.; Zhang Dexing, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China.; Liang Hongbin, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of the Zoological Systematics and Evolution Chinese Academy of Sciences.; Altanchimeg Dorjsuren, Institute of Biology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, 210351, Mongolia.; Nonnaizab, College of Life Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Huhhot, Inner Mongolia 010022, China.; Chuluunjav Chultem, Plant Protection Research Institute, Mongolian State University of Agriculture, Ulaanbaatar, 210153, Mongolia.
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shi Chengmin,Liang Hongbin,Altanchimeg Dorjsuren,et al. Climatic niche defines geographical distribution of Mesobuthus eupeus mongolicus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in Gobi desert[J],2015,40(3):339-348.
APA	Shi Chengmin,Liang Hongbin,Altanchimeg Dorjsuren,Nonnaizab,Chuluunjav Chultem,&Zhang Dexing.(2015).Climatic niche defines geographical distribution of Mesobuthus eupeus mongolicus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in Gobi desert.Zoological Systematics,40(3),339-348.
MLA	Shi Chengmin,et al."Climatic niche defines geographical distribution of Mesobuthus eupeus mongolicus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in Gobi desert".Zoological Systematics 40.3(2015):339-348.