Effect of characteristics of butterfly species on the accuracy of distribution models in an arid environment

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 3629-3641

  Newbold, Tim ^a   Reader, Tom ^a   Zalat, Samy ^b,c   El Gabbas, Ahmed ^c   Gilbert, Francis ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b SUEZ CANAL UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency   (Egypt)

Author keywords

AUC; Ecological characteristics; Independent contrasts; Lepidoptera; Maxent; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 77955129430     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-009-9668-5     Document Type: Article

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