Assessing the environmental requirements of invaders using ensembles of distribution models

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-24

  Capinha, César ^a   Anastácio, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Consensus modelling; Decapods; Environmental gradients; Environmental suitability; Potential distribution

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CRAB; CRAYFISH; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

CHERAX DESTRUCTOR; ERIOCHEIR SINENSIS; PACIFASTACUS LENIUSCULUS; PROCAMBARUS; PROCAMBARUS CLARKII;

EID: 78650025438     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00727.x     Document Type: Article

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