Distinguishing geographical range shifts from artefacts of detectability and sampling effort

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 13-22

  Bates, Amanda E ^a,b   Bird, Tomas J ^c,d   Stuart Smith, Rick D ^b   Wernberg, Thomas ^e   Sunday, Jennifer M ^f   Barrett, Neville S ^b   Edgar, Graham J ^b   Frusher, Stewart ^b   Hobday, Alistair J ^g   Pecl, Gretta T ^b   Smale, Dan A ^e,h   Mccarthy, Michael ^c  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g CSIRO   (Australia)

^h THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate warming; Extreme value statistics; Range edge estimation; Sampling methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919382708     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12263     Document Type: Article

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