Sensitivity of predictive species distribution models to change in grain size

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 332-340

  Guisan, Antoine ^a   Graham, Catherine H ^b   Elith, Jane ^c   Huettmann, Falk ^d   Dudik, Miro ^e   Ferrier, Simon ^e   Hijmans, Robert ^e   Lehmann, Anthony ^e   Li, Jin ^e   Lohmann, Lúcia G ^e   Loiselle, Bette ^e   Manion, Glenn ^e   Moritz, Craig ^e   Nakamura, Miguel ^e   Nakazawa, Yoshinori ^e   Overton, Jacob McC ^e   Peterson, A Townsend ^e   Phillips, Steven J ^e   Richardson, Karen ^e   Scachetti Pereira, Ricardo ^e   Schapire, Robert E ^e   Williams, Stephen E ^e   Wisz, Mary S ^e   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Environmental grain; Model comparison; Natural history collections; Niche based modelling; Predictive performance; Presence only data; Resolution; Sample size; Spatial scale; Species distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GRAIN SIZE; MODELING; NICHE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION;

EID: 34247368824     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00342.x     Document Type: Article

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