A systematic analysis of factors affecting the performance of climatic envelope models

Ecological Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 853-867

  Kadmon, Ronen ^a   Farber, Oren ^a   Danin, Avinoam ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

BIOCLIM; Climatic Envelope Models; Commission vs. omission errors; Distribution models; Ecological niche; GIS; Israel; Kappa; Predictive accuracy; Rainfall; Statistical bias; Woody plants

Indexed keywords

GIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; WOODY PLANT;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0346361819     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2003)013[0853:ASAOFA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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