Ecological Niche Modeling of Seventeen Sandflies Species (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) from Venezuela

The purpose of this study is to create distribution models of seventeen Lutzomyia species in Venezuela. Presence records were obtained from field collections over 30 years by several research teams. We used maximum entropy method for model construction based on 30 arc-second resolution environmental...

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Main Authors: Iomar Sanchez, Jonathan Liria, María Dora Feliciangeli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:International Journal of Zoology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/108306