Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions

Zusatztext "The seven authors have merged their ideas seamlessly." ---Janet Sprent, Bulletin of the British Ecology Society Informationen zum Autor A. Townsend Peterson and Jorge Soberón are professors of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas. Richard G. Pearson is a scientist at the American Museum of Natural History. Robert P. Anderson is associate professor of biology at the City College of New York, CUNY. Enrique Martínez-Meyer is professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Miguel Nakamura is a researcher at the Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas in Guanajuato, Mexico. Miguel B. Araújo is a senior researcher at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid, and at the Universidade de Évora, Portugal. Klappentext "A valuable and timely synthetic overview, this volume does a particularly nice job of laying out the conceptual challenges and technical subtleties that need to be considered in order to develop rigorous, niche-based models of species' distributions, and then of illustrating these issues with a wide range of applications. I warmly recommend this book to a broad range of readers." --Robert D. Holt, University of Florida "When it comes to explaining the theory and practice of niche modeling and species distribution modeling, this is the right book at the right time by the right authors. The book provides a vigorous exploration of a key concept--the ecological niche--and an equally vigorous discussion of approaches to model niches. Essential reading for novice and expert alike." --Robert Guralnick, University of Colorado Boulder Zusammenfassung Focuses on correlative approaches known as ecological niche modeling, species distribution modeling, or habitat suitability modeling, which use associations between known occurrences of species and environmental variables to identify environmental conditions under which populations can be maintained....

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• Authors: A. Townsend Peterson, Jorge Soberon, Richard G. Pearson, A. Townsend Soberon Peterson, Robert P. Anderson, Enrique Martinez-Meyer, Miguel Nakamura, Miguel B. Araujo, A. Townsend Peterson, Jorge Soberón, Enrique Martínez-Meyer, Miguel B. Araújo, Pearson Richard G., Anderson Robert P., Nakamura Miguel, A Townsend Peterson, Richard G Pearson, Robert P Anderson, Miguel B Araújo
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.10.2011
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology
• EAN: 9780691136882
• ISBN: 978-0-691-13688-2
• Pages: 328
• Dimensions (packing): 15.8 x 23.8 x 2.4 cm
• Series: Monographs in Population Biology; Monographs in Population Biolo > 49; Monographs in Population Biology; Monographs in Population Biolo > 49
• Subjects: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biological Diversity; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology; Science; Biodiversity; Biodiversität (Artenvielfalt) / Ökosysteme