Reproduction

Climate Space


Understanding how environmental factors influence species distributions can be aided by determining which areas of the available climate space a species currently occupies. You are interested in showing how much and what part of the available global temperature and precipitation range is occupied by some common tree species. Create three graphs, one each for Quercus alba, Picea glauca, and Ceiba pentandra. Each graph should show a scatterplot of the mean annual temperature and mean annual precipitation for points around the globe and highlight the values for 1000 locations of the plant species. Start by decomposing this exercise into small manageable pieces.

Here are some tips that will be helpful along the way:

Challenge (optional): If you want to challenge yourself trying making a single plot with all three species, either all on the same plot of split over three faceted subplots.

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