Harnessing the world's biodiversity data: promise and peril in ecological niche modeling of species distributions

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

• Publication date

  2012-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06440.xPMID 22352858
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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