A 40-year, continent-wide, multispecies assessment of relevant climate predictors for species distribution modelling

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1285-1295

  Barbet Massin, Morgane ^a,b   Jetz, Walter ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Bioclim variables; Model transferability; Spatial evaluation; Species distribution models; Temporal evaluation; Variable importance

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 84925359753     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12229     Document Type: Article

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