Avoiding Pitfalls of Using Species Distribution Models in Conservation Planning

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1591-1600

  Loiselle, Bette A ^a   Howell, Christine A ^a   Graham, Catherine H ^b   Goerck, Jaqueline M ^c   Brooks, Thomas ^d,e   Smith, Kimberly G ^e   Williams, Paul H ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BirdLife/SAVE Brasil   (Brazil)

^d Center for Applied Biodiversity Science   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^f DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; MODELING; MUSEUM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

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EID: 0346104915     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2003.00233.x     Document Type: Article

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