Very high resolution digital elevation models: Do they improve models of plant species distribution?

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 198, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 139-153

  Lassueur, Thierry ^a   Joost, Stéphane ^a   Randin, Christophe F ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Airborne laserscanning; Habitat modelling; Logistic regression; Scale; Topographic predictors; Vegetation models

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

AIRBORNE LASERSCANNING; HABITAT MODELING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; TOPOGRAPHIC PREDICTORS; VEGETATION MODELS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AIRBORNE SENSOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; MOUNTAIN REGION; PLANT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 33747829265     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.04.004     Document Type: Article

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