Decomposing environmental, spatial, and spatiotemporal components of species distributions

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 329-347

  Hothorn, Torsten ^a   Müller, Jörg ^b   Schröder, Boris ^c,d   Kneib, Thomas ^e   Brandl, Roland ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Nationalparkverwaltung Bayerischer Wald ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^f PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boosting; Model selection; Nonstationarity; Spatial autocorrelation; Species distribution model; Structured additive model; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; DATABASE; GLOBAL CHANGE; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAPTOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

BAVARIA; GERMANY;

AVES; MILVUS MILVUS; RAPTORES;

EID: 79955504883     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0602.1     Document Type: Article

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