Predicting the occurrence of rare Brazilian birds with species distribution models

Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 151, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 857-866

  Marini, Miguel  ^a   Barbet Massin, Morgane ^b   Lopes, Leonardo E ^c   Jiguet, Frédéric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b CP51   (France)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cerrado; Ensemble forecasting; Geographic distribution; Range prediction; Sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956686573     PISSN: 21937192     EISSN: 21937206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-010-0523-y     Document Type: Article

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