Predictive performance of plant species distribution models depends on species traits

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 219-225

  Hanspach, Jan ^a   Kühn, Ingolf ^a   Pompe, Sven ^a   Klotz, Stefan ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlas Florae Europaeae; AUC; Cross validation; GLM; Kappa

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DATA QUALITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHYLOGENETICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

EID: 77955518388     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: 16180437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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