Predicting species distributions from herbarium collections: Does climate bias in collection sampling influence model outcomes?

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 105-116

  Loiselle, Bette A ^a   Jørgensen, Peter M ^b   Consiglio, Trisha ^b   Jiménez, Iván ^b   Blake, John G ^a   Lohmann, Lúcia G ^b,c   Montiel, Olga Martha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Collection bias; Conservation biogeography; Ecological niche modelling; Ecuador; Herbarium data; MAXENT; Species distribution models; Wallacean shortfall

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ELEVATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GIS; HERBARIUM; MODEL VALIDATION; PREDICTION; RANGE SIZE; SAMPLING;

BOLIVIA; ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

GABAZA;

EID: 37149017643     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01779.x     Document Type: Article

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