Impact of the quality of climate models for modelling species occurrences in countries with poor climatic documentation: a case study from Bolivia

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1221-1229

  Soria Auza, Rodrigo W ^a,b   Kessler, Michael ^c   Bach, Kerstin ^d   Barajas Barbosa, Paola M ^a,e   Lehnert, Marcus ^f   Herzog, Sebastian K ^b   Böhner, Jürgen ^g  

^a Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology   (Germany)

^b Asociacion Armonia BirdLife International   (Bolivia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^e PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

^f STAATLICHES MUSEUM FÜR NATURKUNDE   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Birds; Bolivia; Ecological niche modelling; Ferns; Maxent; Saga; Species modelling; Worldclim

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVES; BIRD SPECIES; BOLIVIA; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE MODEL; CLIMATE PATTERNS; DRY TROPICAL FORESTS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELLING; MONTANE FORESTS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECIES RANGES;

BIRDS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; TROPICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOME; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FERN; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HUMID TROPICS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECOLOGY; FERNS; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPICS;

BOLIVIA; JAPAN; KYUSHU; SAGA;

AVES; FILICOPHYTA;

EID: 77349123582     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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