Which is the optimal sampling strategy for habitat suitability modelling

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 157, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 331-341

  Hirzel, Alexandre ^a,b   Guisan, Antoine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bootstrap statistics; GLM; Logistic model; Sampling design; Simulations; Virtual species

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT; SAMPLING;

EID: 0037202454     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(02)00203-X     Document Type: Article

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