Spatial extrapolation: The science of predicting ecological patterns and processes

BioScience

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 310-320

  Miller, James R ^a   Turner, Monica G ^b   Smithwick, Erica A H ^b   Dent, C Lisa ^b   Stanley, Emily H ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Extrapolation; Modeling; Prediction; Scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842734178     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0310:SETSOP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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