Predicting invasive alien plant distributions: How geographical bias in occurrence records influences model performance

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1797-1810

  Wolmarans, René ^a   Robertson, Mark P ^a   van Rensburg, Berndt J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Australia; Ecological niche modelling; Environmental bias; Geographical bias; Invasive alien plants; Marginality; Maxent; Model performance; South Africa; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; INVASIVE SPECIES; MODEL VALIDATION; NICHE PARTITIONING; PLANT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TOLERANCE;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 77955604859     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02325.x     Document Type: Article

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