Uncertainty associated with survey design in species distribution models

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1258-1269

  Tessarolo, Geiziane ^a,b   Rangel, Thiago F ^a   Araújo, Miguel B ^b,c,d   Hortal, Joaquín ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Climatic bias; Environmental niche models; Iberian peninsula; Model performance; Relative occurrence area; Sample size

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925345017     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12236     Document Type: Article

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