Table 2.

Pearson correlation coefficients (r) between observed and predicted species richness in 1995–99. (Predictions are based on GLM and ANN models for the 1970–82 period. 1995–99 climate variables were input into the 1970–82 models to predict 1995–99 species richness. All correlations are significant at p<0.001 (two-tailed).)

group	GLM	ANN
southerly habitat generalists	0.832	0.890
southerly habitat specialists	0.698	0.685
all habitat generalists	0.862	0.883
all habitat specialists	0.568	0.512
all species	0.795	0.789