Projecting future expansion of invasive species: Comparing and improving methodologies for species distribution modeling

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4464-4480

  Mainali, Kumar P ^a   Warren, Dan L ^b   Dhileepan, Kunjithapatham ^c   Mcconnachie, Andrew ^d,e   Strathie, Lorraine ^d   Hassan, Gul ^f   Karki, Debendra ^g   Shrestha, Bharat B ^h   Parmesan, Camille ^a,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^d PLANT PROTECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^e NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^f THE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^g Nepal Institute of Health Science   (Nepal)

^h TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Parthenium hysterophorus; AUC; Boosted regression trees; Generalized additive models; Generalized linear models; Invasive species; Model evaluation; Nonequilibrium distribution; Random forests; Species distribution modeling

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; INVASIVE SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AUSTRALIA; NEPAL;

ASTERACEAE; PARTHENIUM; PARTHENIUM HYSTEROPHORUS;

ASTERACEAE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISPERSAL; PROCEDURES;

ASTERACEAE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISPERSAL;

EID: 84946762531     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13038     Document Type: Article

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