Five (or so) challenges for species distribution modelling

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1677-1688

  Araújo, Miguel B ^a,b   Guisan, Antoine ^c  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fundamental niche; Model evaluation; Niche models; Parameterization; Realized niche; Sampling; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; NICHE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 33748529602     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01584.x     Document Type: Article

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