On using integral projection models to generate demographically driven predictions of species' distributions: Development and validation using sparse data

Ecography

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1167-1183

  Merow, Cory ^a,b   Latimer, Andrew M ^c   Wilson, Adam M ^d   Mcmahon, Sean M ^a   Rebelo, Anthony G ^e   Silander, John A ^b  

^a Smithsonian Environmental Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

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EID: 84912570532     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.00839     Document Type: Article

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