A Brief Tutorial on Maxent

This tutorial gives a basic introduction to use of the Maxent program for maximum entropy modelling of species’ geographic distributions, written by Steven Phillips, Miro Dudik, and Rob Schapire, with support from AT&T Labs-Research, Princeton University, and the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History.

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  2010

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  Lessons in Conservation

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  DOI 10.5531/cbc.linc.3.1.6
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