Influence of positional accuracy, sample size and scale on modelling species distributions: A review

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2083-2095

  Moudrý, Vítězslav ^a   Šímová, Petra ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

grain size; potential distribution; realized distribution; resolution; SDM; spatial error; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FIELD SURVEY; GRAIN SIZE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL DATA; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

EID: 84869449716     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2012.721553     Document Type: Review

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