Predicting the potential distribution of the endangered Przewalski's gazelle

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 282, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 54-63

  Hu, J ^a,b   Jiang, Z ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Competing suitability models; Maxent; Procapra przewalskii; Scale effect; Species distribution modelling; Threshold determining approach

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT SELECTION; PREDICTION; RARE SPECIES; SCALE EFFECT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; UNGULATE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

PROCAPRA PRZEWALSKII; UNGULATA;

EID: 77956147074     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: 14697998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2010.00715.x     Document Type: Article

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