Maximum entropy, logistic regression, and species abundance

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 578-582

  He, Fangliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS;

EID: 77952526154     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17113.x     Document Type: Article

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