Understanding niche shifts: Using current and historical data to model the invasive redlegged earth mite, Halotydeus destructor

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 191-203

  Hill, Matthew P ^a   Hoffmann, Ary A ^a   MacFadyen, Sarina ^b   Umina, Paul A ^a,c   Elith, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c Cesar   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Halotydeus destructor; Invasive species; MAXENT; Niche conservatism; Niche shift; Reciprocal distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CROP PEST; DATA INTERPRETATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MITE; NICHE BREADTH; RANGE EXPANSION;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AFRICA;

ACARI; HALOTYDEUS DESTRUCTOR;

EID: 84855483026     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00844.x     Document Type: Article

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