Predicting habitat distribution and frequency from plant species co-occurrence data

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1041-1052

  Römermann, Christine ^a   Tackenberg, Oliver ^a   Scheuerer, Martin ^a   May, Rudolf ^b   Poschlod, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b Federal Agency for Nature Conservation   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conservation biogeography; Floristic data base; Floristic mapping; Germany; Habitat distribution; Habitat frequency; Habitat mapping; NATURA2000; Predictive modelling; Species frequency

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COEXISTENCE; FEDERAL SYSTEM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MODEL VALIDATION; NATURE CONSERVATION; OPTIMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BAVARIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 34447515842     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01685.x     Document Type: Article

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