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578.09     Franklin, Janet

               Mapping species distributions / / Janet Franklin ; with contributions by Jennifer A. Miller. . - Cambridge ; New York : : Cambridge University Press,,2010 . . - xviii, 320 p. : : ill., maps (some col.) ; ;24 cm. . - Ecology, biodiversity and conservation .

               Includes bibliographical references and index

PART I. HISTORY AND ECOLOGICAL BASIS OF SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELING: Species distribution modeling -- Why do we need species' distribution models? -- Ecological understanding of species' distributions -- PART II. THE DATA NEEDED FOR MODELING SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS: Data for species' distribution models: the biological data -- Data for species' distribution models: the environmental data -- PART III. AN OVERVIEW OF THE MODELING METHODS: Statistical models - modern regression -- Machine learning methods -- Classification, similarity and other methods for presence-only data -- PART IV. MODEL EVALUATION AND IMPLEMENTATION: Model evaluation -- Implementation of species' distribution models.

               ISBN: 9780521876353 9780521700023