Inclusion of soil data improves the performance of bioclimatic envelope models for insect species distributions in temperate Europe

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1459-1473

  Titeux, Nicolas ^a,b   Maes, Dirk ^c   Marmion, Mathieu ^d   Luoto, Miska ^d   Heikkinen, Risto K ^e  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^b EARTH AND LIFE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^e FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Belgium; Bioclimatic modelling; Butterflies; Envelope models; Generalized additive models; Grasshoppers; Land cover data; Orthoptera; Rhopalocera; Species distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BUTTERFLY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GRASSHOPPER; HOME RANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL TYPE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

HEXAPODA; ORTHOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; RHOPALOCERA;

EID: 67650954352     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02088.x     Document Type: Article

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