Importance of spatial autocorrelation in modeling bird distributions at a continental scale

Ecography

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 835-844

  Bahn, Volker ^a,b   J O'Connor, Raymond ^a   B Krohn, William ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 33846430564     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0906-7590.04621.x     Document Type: Article

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