Effect of species rarity on the accuracy of species distribution models for reptiles and amphibians in southern California

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 167-177

  Franklin, Janet ^a   Wejnert, Katherine E ^a   Hathaway, Stacie A ^b   Rochester, Carlton J ^b   Fisher, Robert N ^a,b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification tree; Generalized additive model; Generalized linear model; Herpetofauna; Prevalence; Rarity

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; AUTOCORRELATION; BOOTSTRAPPING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENERALIST; HERPETOFAUNA; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE SIZE; RARITY; REPTILE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 57349083292     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00536.x     Document Type: Article

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