Novel methods to select environmental variables in MaxEnt: A case study using invasive crayfish

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 341, Issue , 2016, Pages 5-13

  Zeng, Yiwen ^a   Low, Bi Wei ^a   Yeo, Darren C J ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

A priori; Distribution; Ecological niche; Species distribution model; Stepwise removal; Tuning

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SHELLFISH; TUNING;

COEFFICIENT VALUES; DISTRIBUTION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY; INFORMATION AVAILABILITY; MANAGEMENT EFFORTS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELING;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CRUSTACEAN; DATABASE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; INVASIVE SPECIES; NICHE; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ASTACOIDEA;

EID: 84989267423     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2016.09.019     Document Type: Article

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