Accuracy of resource selection functions across spatial scales

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 288-297

  Meyer, Carolyn B ^a   Thuiller, Wilfried ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Predictive accuracy; Resource selection; Scale; Selection order; Species occurrence

Indexed keywords

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; RESOURCE SELECTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646229316     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2006.00241.x     Document Type: Review

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