Species distribution models do not account for abundance: The case of arthropods on Terceira Island

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 451-464

  Jiménez Valverde, Alberto ^a,b   Diniz, Francisco ^a   De Azevedo, Eduardo B ^a   Borges, Paulo A V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA;

EID: 77953939943     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.046.0606     Document Type: Article

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