Proper data management as a scientific foundation for reliable species distribution modeling

Predictive Species and Habitat Modeling in Landscape Ecology: Concepts and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 45-70

  Zuckerberg, Benjamin ^a   Huettmann, Falk ^b   Frair, Jacqueline ^b  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 84899936344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7390-0_4     Document Type: Chapter

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