Evaluating collinearity effects on species distribution models: An approach based on virtual species simulation.

The increasing use of species distribution modeling (SDM) has raised new concerns regarding the inaccuracies, misunderstanding, and misuses of this important tool. One of those possible pitfalls - collinearity among environmental predictors - is assumed as an important source of model uncertainty, a...

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Main Authors: Paulo De Marco, Caroline Corrêa Nóbrega
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6133275?pdf=render