NicheA: creating virtual species and ecological niches in multivariate environmental scenarios

Ecography

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 805-813

  Qiao, Huijie ^a   Peterson, A Townsend ^b   Campbell, Lindsay P ^b   Soberón, Jorge ^b   Ji, Liqiang ^a   Escobar, Luis E ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NICHE; NUMERICAL METHOD; SOFTWARE;

HUTCHINSONIA;

EID: 84956884473     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.01961     Document Type: Article

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