A simple post-hoc method to add spatial context to predictive species distribution models

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 228, Issue , 2012, Pages 17-26

  Ashcroft, Michael B ^a,b   French, Kristine O ^a   Chisholm, Laurie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Ecological niche models; Fragmentation; Landscape ecology; Neighbourhood averages; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NEIGHBOURHOOD; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS;

ECOLOGY;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISPERSAL; EVERGREEN TREE; FRAGMENTATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; LANDSCAPE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NICHE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; RAINFOREST; SHELTER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; ILLAWARRA ESCARPMENT; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84855906002     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.12.020     Document Type: Article

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