Optimizing ensembles of small models for predicting the distribution of species with few occurrences

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Methods in Ecology and Evolution

• Publication date

  2018-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Mathematics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/2041-210X.12957
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