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The units for NF and N*(t, G) are in °C. The straight line is the line of Existing = Fundamental. The units of the existing niche can be transformed to units of area potentially suitable for each species. The distance between a point and the line is a measure of how much potential for evolving wider tolerance ranges a species has (see text).
