Spatial nonstationarity and the scale of species-environment relationships in the Mojave Desert, California, USA

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 423-438

  Miller, Jennifer A ^a   Hanham, Robert Q ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographically weighted regression; Nonstationarity; Scale; Species distribution model

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

CALIFORNIA; MOJAVE DESERT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79957607918     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2010.518147     Document Type: Article

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