Modelling and spatial discrimination of small mammal assemblages: An example from western Sichuan (China)

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 9-10, 2009, Pages 1218-1231

  Vaniscotte, Amélie ^a   Pleydell, David R J ^a,f   Raoul, Francis ^a   Quéré, Jean Pierre ^b   Jiamin, Qiu ^d   Wang, Qian ^d   Tiaoying, Li ^d   Bernard, Nadine ^a   Coeurdassier, Michael ^a   Delattre, Pierre ^b   Takahashi, Kenichi ^c   Weidmann, Jean Christophe ^e   Giraudoux, Patrick ^a  

^a University of Franche Comté   (France)

^b CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

^c HOKKAIDO INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^d SICHUAN CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^e CIRAD TA A 54/K ^*  (France)

^f CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Environmental gradients; Habitat distribution modelling; Mixture discriminant analysis; Multiple adaptive regression spline; Small mammal assemblages

Indexed keywords

DESCRIPTORS; ECOLOGICAL PROCESS; ENHANCED VEGETATION INDICES; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL SPACES; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; FOREST HABITATS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; GAUSSIAN CLUSTERS; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODELS; HABITAT DISTRIBUTION MODELLING; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MERGING PROCEDURES; MISCLASSIFICATION ERRORS; MIXTURES OF GAUSSIANS; MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MULTIPLE ADAPTIVE REGRESSION SPLINE; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; NON LINEARITIES; NON-LINEAR; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDICES; PREDICTIVE MODELLING; REDUCED REDUNDANCIES; RELATIVE DENSITIES; REMOTE AREAS; SAMPLED SITES; SMALL MAMMAL ASSEMBLAGES; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATIONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECIES COMPOSITIONS; STUDY AREAS; TIBETAN PLATEAUX; TRAPPING PROBABILITIES; VEGETATION INDEXES; WESTERN SICHUAN;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; MAMMALS; MIXTURES; OCEAN HABITATS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPLINES; VEGETATION;

ECOLOGY;

ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; HABITAT; HABITAT USE; HETEROGENEITY; MODELING; NDVI; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMALL MAMMAL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; GRADIENT; HETEROGENEITY; MAMMALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXTURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SICHUAN;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 63649107284     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.02.019     Document Type: Article

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