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ECOLOGICAL MODELLING
Volume 222, Issue 11, Pages 1810-1819Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.02.011
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Accessible area; Area of distribution; Ecological niche; Geographic extent; Pleistocene
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- Microsoft Research
- ALN [189216]
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Mexico
- Posgrado en Ciencias Biologicas, UNAM
- Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, Spain [EX-2007-0381]
- Juan de la Cierva
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Using known occurrences of species and correlational modeling approaches has become a common paradigm in broad-scale ecology and biogeography, yet important aspects of the methodology remain little-explored in terms of conceptual basis. Here, we explore the conceptual and empirical reasons behind choice of extent of study area in such analyses, and offer practical, but conceptually justified, reasoning for such decisions. We assert that the area that has been accessible to the species of interest over relevant time periods represents the ideal area for model development, testing, and comparison. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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