To mix or not to mix: Comparing the predictive performance of mixture models vs. separate species distribution models

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1913-1919

  Hui, Francis K C ^a,b   Warton, David I ^a   Foster, Scott D ^b   Dunstan, Piers K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community level modeling; Cross validation; Generalized linear models; Mixture models; Species archetypes; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

BURROWING; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84884828943     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1322.1     Document Type: Article

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