Finessing atlas data for species distribution models

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1173-1185

  Niamir, Aidin ^a,b   Skidmore, Andrew K ^a,b   Toxopeus, Albertus G ^a   Muñoz, Antonio R ^c   Real, Raimundo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Fundacion Migres   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aquila fasciata; Bayesian expert system; Bonelli's eagle; Downscaling; Malaga; Maximum entropy; Sampling; Spain

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATLAS; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DOWNSCALING; ENTROPY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAPTOR; RESOLUTION; SAMPLING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ANDALUCIA; MALAGA [ANDALUCIA]; MALAGA [MALAGA (PRV)]; SPAIN;

AQUILA;

EID: 80054113736     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00793.x     Document Type: Article

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