Simple yet effective: Historical proximity variables improve the species distribution models for invasive giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum s.l.) in Poland.

Species distribution models are scarcely applicable to invasive species because of their breaking of the models' assumptions. So far, few mechanistic, semi-mechanistic or statistical solutions like dispersal constraints or propagule limitation have been applied. We evaluated a novel quasi-semi-...

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Main Authors: Piotr Mędrzycki, Ingeborga Jarzyna, Artur Obidziński, Barbara Tokarska-Guzik, Zofia Sotek, Piotr Pabjanek, Adam Pytlarczyk, Izabela Sachajdakiewicz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5604976?pdf=render