Modeling the occurrence of bird species: Are the errors predictable?

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 835-848

  Boone, Randall B ^a,b   Krohn, William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Bird species occurrence; Habitat models; Incidence; Logistic model; Maine; Species occurrence predictions; Species habitat models; USA

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 0033178985     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0835:MTOOBS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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