Table 1. Summary of results of tests of intercontinental predictive ability for 10 exemplar species.
Species | Predicted present | Known present | Coincidence | P |
Lychnis flos-cuculi L. | 1580 | 83 | 82 | <10−10 |
Ranunculus sardous Crantz | 1615 | 303 | 166 | 0.15 |
Brassica tournefortii Gouan (Native to Africa) | 1855 | 14 | 13 | 0.00072 |
Carpobrotus edulis (L.) L. Bolus (Native to southern Africa) | 1668 | 20 | 18 | 7.1×10−5 |
Cardamine impatiens L. | 1861 | 29 | 29 | 3.4×10−7 |
Coronopus squamatus (Forssk.) Aschers. | 1314 | 14 | 9 | 0.027 |
Silene conoidea L. | 1666 | 22 | 16 | 0.020 |
Clematis vitalba L. | 1868 | 25 | 22 | 0.00044 |
Clematis orientalis L. (Native to China) | 685 | 15 | 13 | 7.5×10−9 |
Ranunculus ficaria L. | 1520 | 52 | 48 | 1.8×10−12 |
Presented are the number of counties in which the species was predicted potentially present (“Predicted present;” out of 3111), the number of counties of known occurrence (“Known present”) [54], the coincidence between the latter two sets of counties (“Coincidence”), and the probability value associated with this coincidence.