Comparing modelling approaches at two levels of biological organisation - climate change impacts on selected Natura 2000 habitats

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 699-710

  Bittner, Torsten ^a   Jaeschke, Anja ^a   Reineking, Björn ^a   Beierkuhnlein, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecoinformatics; Ecosystem; GLM; Grasslands; Multi species approach; Natural habitat type of community interest; Random forest; Species distribution model; Vegetation database

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ATLAS; BIOINFORMATICS; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DATABASE; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EUROPEAN UNION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HABITAT TYPE; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EUROPE;

EID: 79960104931     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01266.x     Document Type: Article

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