Modeling Habitat Suitability for Complex Species Distributions by Environmental-Distance Geometric Mean

Environmental Management

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 614-623

  Hirzel, Alexandre H ^a   Arlettaz, Raphaël ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bearded vulture; Ecological envelopes; Ecological niche factor analysis; Environmental space; Gypaetus barbatus; Habitat suitability model; Jack knife cross validation; Median algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ECOLOGY;

ENVIRONMENTAL SPACE;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

GEOMETRY; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SPACE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAPTORS; SOFTWARE;

ANIMALIA; GYPAETUS BARBATUS;

EID: 1642459211     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-0040-3     Document Type: Article

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