On the selection of thresholds for predicting species occurrence with presence-only data

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 337-348

  Liu, Canran ^a   Newell, Graeme ^a   White, Matt ^a  

^a ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

F measure; Presence only; Prevalence; Species distribution modeling; Specificity; Threshold

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955206675     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1878     Document Type: Article

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