Ensemble algorithms for ecological niche modeling from presence-background and presence-only data

Ecosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Drake, John M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecological niche model; Ensemble methods; Gadopsis bispinosus; LOBAG; LOBAG OC; Machine learning; Presence only model; Species distribution model; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905219859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES13-00202.1     Document Type: Article

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