A comparison of absolute performance of different correlative and mechanistic species distribution models in an independent area

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 5973-5986

  Shabani, Farzin ^a   Kumar, Lalit ^a   Ahmadi, Mohsen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic model; correlative model; fundamental niche; mechanistic niche model; modeling methods; realized niche; species distribution model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979759151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2332     Document Type: Article

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