Dealing with uncertain absences in habitat modelling: A case study of a rare ground-dwelling parrot

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 704-713

  Gibson, Lesley ^a   Barrett, Brent ^a,b   Burbidge, Allan ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

^b Department of Environment and Conservation ^*  (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Akaike Information Criterion (AIC); Generalized linear model (GLM); MAXENT; Presence only data; Species distribution models; Western ground parrot

Indexed keywords

BIRD; HABITAT; HABITAT QUALITY; MODELING; RARITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; VEGETATION COVER;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

AVES; PEZOPORUS WALLICUS; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 35448961681     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00365.x     Document Type: Article

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