Validation tests of predictive models of butterfly occurrence based on environmental variables

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 806-817

  Fleishman, Erica ^a   Mac Nally, Ralph ^b   Fay, John P ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037904343     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.02113.x     Document Type: Article

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