Non-stationarity and local approaches to modelling the distributions of wildlife

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 313-323

  Osborne, Patrick E ^a   Foody, Giles M ^a   Suárez Seoane, Susana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas Y Ambientales   (Spain)

Author keywords

GAM; Geographically weighted regression; GLM; Habitat selection; Spatial autocorrelation; Varying coefficient modelling

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; AUTOCORRELATION; MODELING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; SONGBIRD; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ALAUDIDAE; AVES;

EID: 34247354914     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00344.x     Document Type: Article

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