Using remotely-sensed land cover and distribution modeling to estimate tree species migration in the Pacific Northwest Region of North America

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Waring, Richard H ^b   Plowright, Andrew ^a   Lee, Joanna ^a   Dilts, Thomas E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

3PG model; Climate analysis; Decision tree analysis; Species geographical distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957871693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8010065     Document Type: Article

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