A global 1-km consensus land-cover product for biodiversity and ecosystem modelling

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1031-1045

  Tuanmu, Mao Ning ^a   Jetz, Walter ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DISCover; GLC2000; GlobCover; Land cover heterogeneity; Land cover prevalence; MODIS; Remote sensing; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; LAND COVER; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING;

AVES;

EID: 84905904405     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12182     Document Type: Article

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