Due to the lack of sufficient information, with which to infer past distributions of species, Ecological Niche Modelling (ENM) has been used to reconstruct palaeo‐distributions, based on projections of current species ecological niches onto past climatic scenarios. In this study, we utilized ENM to directly and independently reconstruct the Mid‐Holocene distribution of the desert bighorn sheep, using rock art as an alternative source of past distributional information, in order to gain a better understanding of changes in the distribution of this species over the last 6,000 years.

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基于全新世岩石艺术的古分布新见解

由于缺乏足够的信息来推断物种的过去分布，生态位模型（ENM）已被用于根据当前物种对过去气候情景的预测来重建古生物分布。在这项研究中，我们利用ENM直接和独立地重建了沙漠大角羊的中全新世分布，使用岩石艺术作为过去分布信息的替代来源，以便更好地了解该物种的分布变化在过去的6,000年中。