Predicting species distributions using record centre data: Multi-scale modelling of habitat suitability for bat roosts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Bellamy, Chloe ^a   Altringham, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT; HABITAT QUALITY; LANDSCAPE; MYOTIS BRANDTII; MYOTIS MYSTACINUS; MYOTIS NATTERERI; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NYCTALUS NOCTULA; PIPISTRELLUS DAUBENTONII; PIPISTRELLUS PIPISTRELLUS; PIPISTRELLUS PYGMAEUS; PLECOTUS AURITUS; PREDICTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; DATA BASE; ECOSYSTEM; ENGLAND; FOREST; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

MYOTIS MYSTACINUS; NYCTALUS NOCTULA; PIPISTRELLUS; PIPISTRELLUS PIPISTRELLUS; PIPISTRELLUS PYGMAEUS; PLECOTUS AURITUS;

WATER;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DATABASES AS TOPIC; ECOSYSTEM; ENGLAND; FORESTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER;

EID: 84936871220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128440     Document Type: Article

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