Competing roles for landscape, vegetation, topography and climate in predictive models of bird distribution

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 209-222

  Seoane, Javier ^a   Bustamante, Javier ^a   Díaz Delgado, Ricardo ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Generalised additive model; Habitat models; Landscape; Spain

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; CLIMATE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSCAPE; PREDICTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 0842323996     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2003.08.006     Document Type: Article

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