Spatial autocorrelation in predictors reduces the impact of positional uncertainty in occurrence data on species distribution modelling

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1497-1509

  Naimi, Babak ^a,b   Skidmore, Andrew K ^a   Groen, Thomas A ^a   Hamm, Nicholas A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Artificial dataset; Error propagation; Positional uncertainty; Spatial autocorrelation; Species distribution models; Stochastic simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOCORRELATION; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GENETIC ALGORITHM; LINEARITY; MAGNITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 79960237642     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02523.x     Document Type: Article

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