Use of Coarse-resolution models of species' distributions to guide local conservation inferences

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1378-1387

  Barbosa, A Márcia ^a,b   Real, Raimundo ^c   Vargas, J Mario ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distribution modeling; Downscaling; Environmental favorability; Environmental quality; Eurasian otter; Galemys pyrenaicus; Iberian desman; Iberian Peninsula; Lutra lutra; Model extrapolation

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; DOWNSCALING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; LINEARITY; MAMMAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SAMPLING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARNIVORA; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PORTUGAL; SPAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OTTERS; PORTUGAL; SPAIN;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

CARNIVORA; GALEMYS PYRENAICUS; LUTRA LUTRA;

EID: 77957125347     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01517.x     Document Type: Article

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