Here be dragons: A tool for quantifying novelty due to covariate range and correlation change when projecting species distribution models

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1147-1159

  Mesgaran, Mohsen B ^a   Cousens, Roger D ^a   Webber, Bruce L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Correlation; ExDet; Mahalanobis distance; MaxENT; MESS map; Model extrapolation; Model interrogation; Niche modelling; Non equilibrium settings; Novel environment; SDM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908479347     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12209     Document Type: Article

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