Characterizing and predicting species distributions across environments and scales: Argentine ant occurrences in the eye of the beholder

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 50-63

  Menke, Sean B ^a,c   Holway, D A ^a   Fisher, R N ^b   Jetz, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentine ant; California; Ecological niche models; GIS; Invasion; Linepithema humile; Model averaging; Spatial grain; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

ANT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; INVASIVE SPECIES; NICHE; SAMPLING; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

LINEPITHEMA HUMILE;

EID: 57649136405     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00420.x     Document Type: Article

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