Novel methods improve prediction of species' distributions from occurrence data

Ecography

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 129-151

  Elith, Jane ^a   H Graham, Catherine ^b   P Anderson, Robert ^c   Dudík, Miroslav ^d   Ferrier, Simon ^e   Guisan, Antoine ^f   J Hijmans, Robert ^g   Huettmann, Falk ^h   R Leathwick, John ⁱ   Lehmann, Anthony ^j   Li, Jin ^k   G Lohmann, Lucia ^l   A Loiselle, Bette ^m   Manion, Glenn ^e   Moritz, Craig ^g   Nakamura, Miguel ⁿ   Nakazawa, Yoshinori ^o   McC M Overton, Jacob ^p   Townsend Peterson, A ^o   J Phillips, Steven ^q   Richardson, Karen ^r   Scachetti Pereira, Ricardo ^s   E Schapire, Robert ^d   Soberón, Jorge ^o   Williams, Stephen ^t   S Wisz, Mary ^u   E Zimmermann, Niklaus ^v   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Dept of Environment and Conservation Armidale ^*  (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^j Centre Suisse de Cartographie de la Faune   (Switzerland)

^k CSIRO   (Australia)

^l UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

ⁿ CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^o UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^p LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^q AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^r MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^s Centro de Referência Em Informação Ambiental CRIA   (Brazil)

^t JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^u NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^v SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HERBARIUM; INFORMATION; MODEL; MUSEUM; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 33645917058     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0906-7590.04596.x     Document Type: Article

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