Predicting rarity and decline in animals, plants, and mushrooms based on species attributes and indicator groups

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3401-3414

  Musters, C J M ^a   Kalkman, Vincent ^b   van Strien, Arco ^c,d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Birds; Butterflies; Random forests; Red Lists; Vascular plants; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887745282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.699     Document Type: Article

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