Improved spatial estimates of climate predict patchier species distributions

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1106-1113

  Storlie, C J ^a   Phillips, B L ^a   Vanderwal, J J ^a   Williams, S E ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia's Wet Tropics; Boosted Regression Trees; Climate downscaling; Spatial climate layers; Spatial weather layers; Species distribution model

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PATCHINESS; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAINFOREST; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; UPLAND REGION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84881611063     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12068     Document Type: Article

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