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How much is enough? Influence of number of presence observations on the performance of species distribution models

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/som-2019-0001 | Journal eISSN: 2084-0098 | Journal ISSN: 0800-6865
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Published on: Feb 14, 2019
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