Potential for spread of the white-nose fungus (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) in the Americas: use of Maxent and NicheA to assure strict model transference

Emerging infectious diseases can present serious threats to wildlife, even to the point of causing extinction. White- nose fungus (<em>Pseudogymnoascus destructans</em>) is causing an epizootic in bats that is expanding rapidly, both geographically and taxonomically. Little is known of t...

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Main Authors: Luis E. Escobar, Andrés Lira-Noriega, Gonzalo Medina-Vogel, A. Townsend Peterson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PAGEPress Publications 2014-11-01
Series:Geospatial Health
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Online Access:http://www.geospatialhealth.net/index.php/gh/article/view/19