This is the author manuscript accepted for publication and has undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record . Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/jbi.13152 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved 1 DR. ANNA CARTER (Orcid ID : 0000-0003-4392-277X) 2 3 4 Article type : Methods and Tools 5 6 7 Original Article 8 9 Geostatistical interpolation can reliably extend coverage of a very 10 high-resolution model of temperature-dependent sex determination 11 12 Running title 13 Kriging a biophysical model 14 15 Authors 16 Anna L. Carter 1 * § , Michael R. Kearney 2 , Stephen Hartley 1 , Warren P. Porter 3 and Nicola J. 17 Nelson 19 1 18 Author affiliations 20 1 § Present address: Department of Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, 2200 Osborne Dr., Ames, IA 50011, USA School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington 21 6140, New Zealand 22 Author Manuscript