Data Descriptor: A suite of global, cross-scale topographic variables for environmental and biodiversity modeling

Scientific Data

Volumn 5, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Amatulli, Giuseppe ^a   Domisch, Sami ^a,e   Tuanmu, Mao Ning ^a,b   Parmentier, Benoit ^c   Ranipeta, Ajay ^a   Malczyk, Jeremy ^a   Jetz, Walter ^a,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

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EID: 85044295498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20524463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2018.40     Document Type: Article

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