How Can Model Comparison Help Improving Species Distribution Models?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Gritti, Emmanuel Stephan ^a,b   Gaucherel, Cédric ^c,d   Crespo Perez, Maria Veronica ^a   Chuine, Isabelle ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement   (France)

^c UMR AMAP   (France)

^d FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC STRESS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIVE ENVELOPE MODEL; DYNAMIC GENERAL VEGETATION MODEL; FAGUS SYLVATICA; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; PLANT GROWTH; PROCESS BASED MODEL; QUERCUS ROBUR; SCOTS PINE; SIMULATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREES;

FAGUS SYLVATICA;

EID: 84879916452     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068823     Document Type: Article

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