Comparing models for predicting species' potential distributions: A case study using correlative and mechanistic predictive modelling techniques

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 164, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 153-167

  Robertson, Mark P ^a   Peter, Craig I ^b   Villet, Martin H ^a   Ripley, Brad S ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATAL PIETERMARITZBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Coastal dune plants; Correlative models; Logistic regression; Mechanistic models; PCA; Predictive biogeography; Scaevola plumieri

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; DUNE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PLANT; PREDICTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

SOUTH AFRICA;

SCAEVOLA; SCAEVOLA PLUMIERI;

EID: 0038178231     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(03)00028-0     Document Type: Article

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