Model reliability is low for willow oak, overcup oak, and shellbark hickory, which dominate wet bottomland forests.

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These species are relatively rare across the landscape as a whole. In order for model projections to be reliable, there needs to be a large enough sample size to properly characterize current, and thus future, habitat suitability. Therefore, there is not enough information to reliably predict habitat suitability for some of these rare species.