Are niche-based species distribution models transferable in space?

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1689-1703

  Randin, Christophe F ^a   Dirnböck, Thomas ^b   Dullinger, Stefan ^c   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^d   Zappa, Massimiliano ^d   Guisan, Antoine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^c Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses   (Austria)

^d SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Austria; Generality; Generalized additive models (GAM); Generalized linear models (GLM); Geographical transferability; Habitat distribution; Model evaluation; Predictions; Spatial modelling; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LOGIT ANALYSIS; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33646543813     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01466.x     Document Type: Article

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