Tracking a medically important spider: Climate change, ecological niche modeling, and the brown recluse (Loxosceles reclusa)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Saupe, Erin E ^a   Papes, Monica ^b   Selden, Paul A ^a,c   Vetter, Richard S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LOXOSCELES RECLUSA; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPIDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ARANEAE; LOXOSCELES RECLUSA; SICARIIDAE;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPIDERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79953058731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017731     Document Type: Article

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