The ability of climate envelope models to predict the effect of climate change on species distributions

Global Change Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2272-2281

  Hijmans, Robert J ^a,c   Graham, Catherine H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Bioclim; Climate change; Domain; Envelope models; GAM; Maxent; Species distributions

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 33845270432     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01256.x     Document Type: Article

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