Avoiding Pitfalls of Using Species Distribution Models in Conservation Planning

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Conservation Biology

• Publication date

  2003-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2003.00233.x
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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