Validating Predictions from Climate Envelope Models

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Watling, James I ^a   Bucklin, David N ^a   Speroterra, Carolina ^a   Brandt, Laura A ^b   Mazzotti, Frank J ^a   Romañach, Stephanie S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE ENVELOPE MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; DATA ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ALGORITHM; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RANDOM FOREST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORECASTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878154933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063600     Document Type: Article

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