Evaluating predictive models of species' distributions: Criteria for selecting optimal models

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 211-232

  Anderson, Robert P ^a,b   Lew, Daniel ^c   Peterson, A Townsend ^b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c Museo de Historia Natural La Salle   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Asymmetrical errors; Commission; Confusion matrix; GARP; Genetic algorithms; Omission; Range

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

AVES; CARPODACUS; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; HETEROMYS; HETEROMYS ANOMALUS; MICRORYZOMYS MINUTUS; PASSERIFORMES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0037446358     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(02)00349-6     Document Type: Article

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