Point process models for presence-only analysis

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 366-379

  Renner, Ian W ^a   Elith, Jane ^b   Baddeley, Adrian ^c   Fithian, William ^d   Hastie, Trevor ^d   Phillips, Steven J ^e   Popovic, Gordana ^f   Warton, David I ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e The University of New South Wales ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

maxent; Cox processes; Gibbs processes; Pseudo absences; Species distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926625850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12352     Document Type: Review

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