Niche differentiation in Mexican birds: Using point occurrences to detect ecological innovation

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 774-782

  Peterson, A Townsend ^a   Holt, Robert D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; Mexican birds; Niche evolution; Predictive distributional models

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GIS; NICHE PARTITIONING; SUBSPECIES;

MEXICO;

AVES;

EID: 0041627374     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00502.x     Document Type: Article

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