Mapping Species Distributions

ISBN-13: 9780521700023 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 340 str.

Janet Franklin

Opis

Comprehensive summary of species distribution modeling methods integrating ecological and statistical models with spatial data, and a framework for implementation.

Recenzje

'This is a very useful book that we commend to anyone interested in species distribution models … This is probably the best book available on species distribution models.' Oryx

Spis treści

Part I. History and Ecological Basis of Species' Distribution Modeling: 1. Species distribution modeling; 2. Why do we need species' distribution models?; 3. Ecological understanding of species' distributions; Part II. The Data Needed for Modeling Species' Distributions: 4. Data for species' distribution models: the biological data; 5. Data for species' distribution models: the environmental data; Part III. An Overview of the Modeling Methods: 6. Statistical models - modern regression; 7. Machine learning methods; 8. Classification, similarity and other methods for presence-only data; Part IV. Model Evaluation and Implementation: 9. Model evaluation; 10. Implementation of species' distribution models.