Essential elements of discourse for advancing the modelling of species' current and potential distributions

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 608-611

  Kriticos, Darren J ^a,b,c   Le Maitre, David C ^d   Webber, Bruce L ^a,e  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Cooperative Research Centre for Plant Biosecurity ^*  (Australia)

^d DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic modelling; Context; Correlation; Extrapolation; Mechanistic; Modelling; Niche; Paradigm; Review; Species distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873728641     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02791.x     Document Type: Letter

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