Classification trees: An alternative non-parametric approach for predicting species distributions

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 679-694

  Vayssières, Marc P ^a   Plant, Richard E ^a   Allen Diaz, Barbara H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized Linear Model; Logistic regression; Predictive accuracy assessment; Quercus; ROC curve; Sensitivity; Specificity; Vegetation modeling

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 0034503178     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3236575     Document Type: Article

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