Land-cover data improve bioclimatic models for anurans and turtles at a regional scale

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1656-1672

  Tingley, R ^a,b   Herman, T B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anurans; Bioclimatic models; Canada; Climate change; Land cover; Nova Scotia; Spatial autocorrelation; Species distributions; Turtles

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; FROG; HERPETOFAUNA; LAND COVER; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TURTLE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA;

ANURA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 69249191543     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02117.x     Document Type: Article

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