Predicting to new environments: Tools for visualizing model behaviour and impacts on mapped distributions

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 628-634

  Zurell, Damaris ^a   Elith, Jane ^b   Schröder, Boris ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental niche; Extrapolation; Inflated response curves; Novel environment; Sampling space; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860606870     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00887.x     Document Type: Letter

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