Explanative power of variables used in species distribution modelling: An issue of general model transferability or niche shift in the invasive Greenhouse frog (Eleutherodactylus planirostris)

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 781-796

  Rödder, Dennis ^a   Lötters, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biological invasion; Fundamental niche; Maxent; Niche shift; Realized niche

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DIETARY OVERLAP; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FROG; HOME RANGE; INVASIVE SPECIES; NICHE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FROG; FROGS AND TOADS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION; RANIDAE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS PLANIROSTRIS;

EID: 77957574491     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-010-0694-7     Document Type: Article

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