Predicting plant species distribution across an alpine rangeland in northern Spain. A comparison of probabilistic methods

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 415-432

  Bedia, J ^a,b   Busque J ^a   Gutierrez J M ^b  

^a Centro de Investigación y Formación Agrarias Gobierno de Cantabria CIFA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA DE CANTABRIA CSIC UC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alpine vegetation; Artificial neural networks; Classification and regression tree; Maximum entropy; Multiple logistic regression; Multivariate adaptive regression splines; Species distribution models; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959984657     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: 1654109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2011.01128.x     Document Type: Article

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