Selecting pseudo-absences for species distribution models: How, where and how many?

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 327-338

  Barbet Massin, Morgane ^a   Jiguet, Frédéric ^a   Albert, Cécile Hélène ^b,c   Thuiller, Wilfried ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

Background data; Bias; Biomod; Ecological niche modelling; Sampling design; Virtual species

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867148221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00172.x     Document Type: Article

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