Accounting for imperfect detection and survey bias in statistical analysis of presence-only data

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1472-1484

  Dorazio, Robert M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological niche model; N mixture model; Predictive biogeography; Site occupancy model; Spatial point process; Species distribution model

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; NICHE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DATA;

EID: 84922544873     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12216     Document Type: Article

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