Paintings predict the distribution of species, or the challenge of selecting environmental predictors and evaluation statistics

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Global Ecology and Biogeography

• Publication date

  2018-02-01

• Fields of study

  Art, Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/GEB.12684
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