Use of maximum entropy modeling in wildlife research

Entropy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 854-866

  Baldwin, Roger A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitat selection models; Maxent; Maximum entropy; Species distribution models; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953494562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e11040854     Document Type: Review

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