Advancing our thinking in presence-only and used-available analysis

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1125-1134

  Warton, David ^a   Aarts, Geert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit; Habitat model; MAXENT; Point process models; Pseudo absences; Resource selection function; Species distribution model; Use availability design

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; HABITAT; METHODOLOGY; RESOURCE SELECTION;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIGHORN SHEEP; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; GOODNESS-OF-FIT; HABITAT MODEL; MAXENT; PHYSIOLOGY; POINT PROCESS MODELS; PSEUDO-ABSENCES; RESOURCE SELECTION FUNCTION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODEL; UNITED STATES; USE-AVAILABILITY DESIGN;

GOODNESS-OF-FIT; HABITAT MODEL; MAXENT; POINT PROCESS MODELS; PSEUDO-ABSENCES; RESOURCE SELECTION FUNCTION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODEL; USE-AVAILABILITY DESIGN;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SHEEP, BIGHORN; WYOMING;

EID: 84886295282     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12071     Document Type: Article

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