Climate and atmospheric carbon dioxide are significant factors in ecological risk assessments, suggesting their consideration is required in predicting potential distribution of a invasive species. CLIMEX model is one of species distribution models (SDMs) and provides potential geographical distribution by focusing on climatic effect on species inhabitation. Most SDMs, such as Bioclim, Domain, GARP and MaxEnt, focus on relationship between the occurrences of the species and static environmental covariates, whereas CLIMEX model depends on limitations of species' geographical distribution and reactions to climatic variables at an appropriate temporal scale (called seasonal phenology). In this study, we described the basic concept of CLIMEX and reviewed previous applications. Also, we demonstrated the various utilization of CLIMEX differed by study purposes and methodology for analyzing the model.

• Jae-Min Jung(Department of Biosystems Machinery Engineering, Chungnam National University)
• Dae-Hyeon Byeon(Department of Biosystems Machinery Engineering, Chungnam National University)
• Sunghoon Jung(Department of Applied Biology, Chungnam National University)
• Wang-Hee Lee(Department of Biosystems Machinery Engineering, Chungnam National University)