Habitat Suitability Models, for ecological study of the alpine marmot in the central Italian Alps

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2017, Pages 10-17

  Galluzzi, Marta ^a   Armanini, Marco ^b   Ferrari, Giulia ^c   Zibordi, Filippo ^b   Scaravelli, Dino ^c   Chirici, Gherardo ^a   Nocentini, Susanna ^a   Mustoni, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Adamello Brenta Nature Park   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Generalized linear model; Habitat Suitability Models; Logistic regression; Marmota marmota; Precence absence data; Species distribution modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; DATA ACQUISITION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; INDEX METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RODENT;

ADAMELLO BRENTA NATURE PARK; ITALY; TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE; TRENTO;

MARMOTA MARMOTA; MARMOTA MARMOTA MARMOTA;

EID: 85000415131     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2016.11.010     Document Type: Article

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