Do we need land-cover data to model species distributions in Europe?

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 353-361

  Thuiller, Wilfried ^a,b   Araújo, Miguel B ^a,b   Lavorel, Sandra ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic models; Climate gradients; Land use effects; Large scale patterns; Species distributions

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LAND COVER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 1542289824     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0305-0270.2003.00991.x     Document Type: Article

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