Incorporating distance constraints into species distribution models

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 599-609

  Allouche, Omri ^a   Steinitz, Ofer ^a   Rotem, Dotan ^a   Rosenfeld, Arik ^a   Kadmon, Ronen ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic models; Climatic envelope; Dispersal limitation; Mass effect; Predictive accuracy; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AUTOCORRELATION; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATA SET; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MODELING; NICHE; PREDICTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TAXONOMY;

AVES; GASTROPODA;

EID: 40949126583     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01445.x     Document Type: Article

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