Predicting the Fate of Biodiversity Using Species' Distribution Models: Enhancing Model Comparability and Repeatability

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Rodríguez Castañeda, Genoveva ^a   Hof, Anouschka R ^b,c   Jansson, Roland ^b   Harding, Larisa E ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; FALCONIFORMES; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

FALCO;

EID: 84866285501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044402     Document Type: Article

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