Very high resolution environmental predictors in species distribution models: Moving beyond topography?

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 79-96

  Pradervand, Jean Nicolas ^a   Dubuis, Anne ^a   Pellissier, Loïc ^b   Guisan, Antoine ^a   Randin, Christophe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

grain size; micro topography; mountains; plants; predictive power; species distribution models (SDMs); VHR

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; MICROHABITAT; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; MOUNTAIN; PLANT; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84894238240     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133313512667     Document Type: Article

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