The Role of Disturbance in Natural Communities

1984/11/01 by Wayne P. Sousa, W P Sousa · 17 citations
Environmental Science · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Plant and animal studies #Species Distribution and Climate Change

paper · doi:10.1146/annurev.es.15.110184.002033

Abstract

Species distribution models (SDMs) are numerical tools that combine observations of species occurrence or abundance with environmental estimates. They are used to gain ecological and evolutionary insights and to predict distributions across landscapes, ...Read More

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