Should data be partitioned spatially before building large-scale distribution models?

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 157, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 249-259

  Osborne, Patrick E ^a   Suárez Seoane, Susana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birds; Distribution models; Logistic regression; Spain; Spatial heterogeneity; Spatial non stationary

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HETEROGENEITY; REGRESSION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 0037202442     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(02)00198-9     Document Type: Article

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