Predicting species' abundances from occurrence data: Effects of sample size and bias

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 294, Issue , 2014, Pages 36-41

  Yañez Arenas, Carlos ^a   Guevara, Roger ^a   Martínez Meyer, Enrique ^b   Mandujano, Salvador ^c   Lobo, Jorge M ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c Departamento de Zoología Instituto de Biología Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Ciudad Universitaria ^*  (Mexico)

^d MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abundance; Distance to the niche centroid; Ecological niche modelling; Population density; Sample intensity; Sampling scenarios

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DISTANCE TO THE NICHE CENTROID; ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELLING; POPULATION DENSITIES; SAMPLE SIZES;

ABUNDANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NICHE; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

EID: 84907998246     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.09.014     Document Type: Article

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