Effect of roadside bias on the accuracy of predictive maps produced by bioclimatic models

Ecological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 401-413

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

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Biodiversity; Ecological niche models; GIS; Israel; Kappa; Species distribution; Woody plants

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SAMPLING BIAS; VEGETATION MAPPING; WOODY PLANT;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1642410340     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-5364     Document Type: Article

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