Generality of models that predict the distribution of species: Conservation activity and reduction of model transferability for a threatened bustard;Generalidad de los modelos que predicen la distribucíon de especies: Actividades de conservacíon y reduccíon de la transferibilidad del modelo para una avutarda amenazada

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 433-439

  Gray, Thomas N E ^a,f   Borey, Ro ^b   Hout, Seng Kim ^c   Chamnan, Hong ^b   Collar, Nigel J ^d,e   Dolman, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b Wildlife Conservation Society Cambodia   (Cambodia)

^c BirdLife Indochina Cambodia Program   (Cambodia)

^d BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f WWF Greater Mekong   (Cambodia)

Author keywords

Bengal Florican; Bustard; Cambodia; Houbaropsis bengalensis; Model averaging; Model transferability; Multimodel inference; Predictive species distribution models

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; FLOODPLAIN; GAMEBIRD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MODEL VALIDATION; POPULATION MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CAMBODIA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CAMBODIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

ASIA; CAMBODIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TONLE SAP LAKE;

HOUBAROPSIS BENGALENSIS;

EID: 62549138240     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01112.x     Document Type: Article

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