What matters for predicting the occurrences of trees: Techniques, data, or species' characteristics?

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 615-630

  Guisan, A ^a   Zimmermann, N E ^b   Elith, J ^c   Graham, C H ^d   Phillips, S ^e   Peterson, A T ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Data treatment; Grain size; Location error; Model performance; Niche based modeling; Sample size; Species traits; Switzerland native tree species; Tree occurrences

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; NATIVE SPECIES; NICHE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 40349093056     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1060.1     Document Type: Article

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