The effect of the extent of the study region on GIS models of species geographic distributions and estimates of niche evolution: Preliminary tests with montane rodents (genus Nephelomys) in Venezuela

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1378-1393

  Anderson, Robert P ^a,b   Raza, Ali ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Background sampling; Distributional modelling; Maxent; Nephelomys; Niche evolution; Niche modelling; Overfitting; Pseudoabsences; South America; Transferability

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GIS; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RODENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TOPOGRAPHY;

VENEZUELA;

CARACOLUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 77954786550     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02290.x     Document Type: Article

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