Testing the Effectiveness of Environmental Variables to Explain European Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Richness across Biogeographical Scales.

We compared the effectiveness of environmental variables, and in particular of land-use indicators, to explain species richness patterns across taxonomic groups and biogeographical scales (i.e. overall pan-Europe and ecoregions within pan-Europe). Using boosted regression trees that handle non-linea...

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Main Authors: Maud Mouchet, Christian Levers, Laure Zupan, Tobias Kuemmerle, Christoph Plutzar, Karlheinz Erb, Sandra Lavorel, Wilfried Thuiller, Helmut Haberl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4498906?pdf=render