Diversity and suitability of existing methods and metrics for quantifying species range shifts

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 609-624

  Yalcin, Semra ^a   Leroux, Shawn J ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

climate change; global change; grid based map; hybrid method; mechanistic model; meta population model; range contraction; range expansion; SDM; species distribution

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; MAP; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION MODELING; RANGE EXPANSION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

EID: 85019621656     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12579     Document Type: Article

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