High resolution species distribution models of two nesting water bird species: A study of transferability and predictive performance

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 545-555

  Heinänen, Stefan ^a,b   Erola, Johnny ^a   von Numers, Mikael ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b DHI   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Archipelago; Common eider; Generality; GIS; Habitat modelling; Herring gull; Independent data; Islands; Maxent; Regularization

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARCHIPELAGO; CONSERVATION PLANNING; GIS; LAND SURFACE; NEST SITE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; SOFTWARE; WATERFOWL;

FINLAND;

AVES; CLUPEIDAE; LARUS ARGENTATUS; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 84859210029     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9705-8     Document Type: Article

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