Using ecological niche modelling to predict spatial and temporal distribution patterns in Chinese gibbons: Lessons from the present and the past

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 85-99

  Chatterjee, H J ^a   Tse, J S Y ^a   Turvey, S T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; Climate change; DIVA GIS; Ecological niche modelling; Geographic information system; Gibbons; Range shifts

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY; HYLOBATES; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; CHINA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HYLOBATES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME FACTORS;

HYLOBATIDAE;

EID: 84870801831     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000342696     Document Type: Article

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