Land use improves spatial predictions of mountain plant abundance but not presence-absence

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 996-1008

  Randin, Christophe F ^a   Jaccard, Hélène ^a   Vittoz, Pascal ^a,b   Yoccoz, Nigel G ^c   Guisan, Antoine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Distribution; Environmental niche; Logistic regression; Mountain flora; Ordinal response; Species distribution models (SDM); Variation partitioning; Western swiss alps

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649272357     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2009.01098.x     Document Type: Article

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