Projecting species' range expansion dynamics: Sources of systematic biases when scaling up patterns and processes

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1008-1018

  Bocedi, Greta ^a   Pe'er, Guy ^b   Heikkinen, Risto K ^c   Matsinos, Yiannis ^d   Travis, Justin M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biases; Dispersal; Dynamic modelling; Individual based model; Map resolution; Population dynamics; Range expansion; Scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871009433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00235.x     Document Type: Article

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