SDMtoolbox: A python-based GIS toolkit for landscape genetic, biogeographic and species distribution model analyses

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 694-700

  Brown, Jason L ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

ArcGIS; Corrected weighted endemism; Ecological niche models; Geographic information systems; Least cost corridors; Maxent bias files; Spatial jackknifing; Spatially rarefy occurrences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904327892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12200     Document Type: Article

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