Do bioclimate variables improve performance of climate envelope models?

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 246, Issue C, 2012, Pages 79-85

  Watling, James I ^a   Romañach, Stephanie S ^b   Bucklin, David N ^a   Speroterra, Carolina ^a   Brandt, Laura A ^c   Pearlstine, Leonard G ^d   Mazzotti, Frank J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate envelope model; Endangered species; Species distribution model

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATE; CLIMATE DATA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MODEL SELECTION TECHNIQUES; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; RANDOM FOREST ALGORITHM; RANDOM FORESTS; SPATIAL PREDICTION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; VERTEBRATE SPECIES;

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION; DECISION TREES; FORECASTING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ALGORITHM; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; VERTEBRATE;

UNITED STATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84864946145     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.07.018     Document Type: Article

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