A statistical explanation of MaxEnt for ecologists

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-57

  Elith, Jane ^a   Phillips, Steven J ^b   Hastie, Trevor ^c   Dudík, Miroslav ^d   Chee, Yung En ^a   Yates, Colin J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

^e Bentley Delivery Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Absence; Ecological niche; Entropy; Machine learning; Presence only; Species distribution model

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FISH; LANDSCAPE; LEARNING; NICHE; RIVER SYSTEM; STATISTICAL APPLICATION;

AUSTRALIA;

BANKSIA;

EID: 78649991963     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00725.x     Document Type: Article

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