Habitat suitability and distribution models, with applications in R / Antoine Guisan, Wilfried Thuiller, Niklaus E. Zimmermann ; with contributions from Valeria di Cola, Damien Georges, Achilleas Psomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guisan, A. (Antoine), author.

Thuiller, Wilfried, 1975- author.

Zimmermann, Niklaus E., author.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Rudolph G. Schmieder Fund.

Series:

Ecology, biodiversity, and conservation

Ecology, biodivesity and conservation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Habitat suitability index models.

R (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 462 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1. General content of this book

2. Overview of the habitat suitability modeling procedure

3. What drives species distributions?

4. From niche to distribution : basic modeling principles and applications

5. Assumptions behind habitat suitability models

6. Environmental predictors : issues of processing and selection

7. Species data : issues of acquisition and design

8. Ecological scales : issues of resolution and extent

9. Envelopes and distance-based approaches

10. Regression-based approaches

11. Classification approaches and machine-learning systems

12. Boosting and bagging approaches

13. Maximum entropy

14. Ensemble modeling and model averaging

15. Measuring model accuracy : which metrics to use?

16. Assessing model performance : which data to use?

17. Projecting models in space and time

18. Datasets and tools used for the examples in this book

19. The Biomod2 modeling package examples

20. Conclusions and future perspectives in habitat suitability modeling.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-457) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 28, 2017).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rudolph G. Schmieder Fund.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781139028271

1139028278

Publisher Number:

99974546014

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.