Niche models for British plants and lichens obtained using an ensemble approach

New Journal of Botany

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 89-100

  Henrys, P A ^a   Smart, S M ^a   Rowe, E C ^a   Jarvis, S G ^a   Fang, Z ^b   Evans, C D ^a   Emmett, B A ^a   Butler, A ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Envelope; Niche occupancy; Pollution; R package

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952000212     PISSN: 20423489     EISSN: 20423497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000010     Document Type: Article

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