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- Reviews the weaknesses of current GIS-based ecological modeling approaches and offers specific recommendations on how to improve models
- Introduces and demonstrates several novel covariates that significantly improve the explanatory and predictive power of species-habitat models over those currently published
- Offers a detailed review of the history and current state of the field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Ecology (BRIEFSECOLOGY)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Habitat by Design, Pipersville, USA
Jeffrey K. Keller
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Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
Charles R. Smith
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Improving GIS-based Wildlife-Habitat Analysis
Authors: Jeffrey K. Keller, Charles R. Smith
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Ecology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09608-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09607-0Published: 10 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09608-7Published: 01 October 2014
Series ISSN: 2192-4759
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4767
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 132
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Conservation Biology/Ecology, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Ecosystems, Nature Conservation, Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry