(A) An inflorescence with two showy white bracts of D. involucrata (Photograph by Shi-Liu Wang). (B) Fresh fruits with autumn foliage D. involucrata (Photograph by Cindy Q. Tang). (C) A forest of D. involucrata at ca. 1480 m in Longcanggou, Sichuan (Photograph by Jun Hu).
(A) Provinces of China. Ch = Chongqing. (B) The spatial distribution pattern of forests containing D. involucrata as one of the dominants. Purple lines: national boundaries between China and India (at issue). Maps were generated using the software ArcGIS v. 9.3.
(A) A “standard” model for the present time period is obtained by averaging the multiple runs (20 in our case) from the cross-validation (or from another sampling technique, e.g. subsample); (B) a map showing the variability in the predicted suitable areas among all generated models (20) from the cross-validation (“uncertainty” map); (C) A “refined” map is obtained by removing the pixels that are forecast by