Correlative and mechanistic models of species distribution provide congruent forecasts under climate change

Conservation Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 203-213

  Kearney, Michael R ^a   Wintle, Brendan A ^a   Porter, Warren P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biophysical ecology; Fundamental niche; Geographical information systems; Microclimate; Physiological ecology; Realized niche; Species distribution modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956647767     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00097.x     Document Type: Article

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