Using Maxent to model the historic distributions of stonefly species in Illinois streams: The effects of regularization and threshold selections

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 259, Issue , 2013, Pages 30-39

  Cao, Yong ^a   DeWalt, R Edward ^a   Robinson, Jason L ^a   Tweddale, Tari ^a   Hinz, Leon ^a   Pessino, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic insects; Model selection; Species distribution model; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC INSECTS; MODEL SELECTION; PRESENCE-ABSENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS; SPECIES RICHNESS; THE STANDARD MODEL; THRESHOLD SELECTION;

BIODIVERSITY; LANDFORMS; WATERSHEDS;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

AQUATIC ORGANISM; HOME RANGE; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; MODEL VALIDATION; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STONEFLY; WATERSHED;

ILLINOIS; ILLINOIS RIVER; UNITED STATES;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PLECOPTERA;

EID: 84876790334     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.03.012     Document Type: Article

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