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John R. Leathwick

JR

70

Publications

31.4K

Citations

45

H-Index

1983

Active since

Affiliations

National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research(Current)

Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research

The University of Melbourne

University of Waikato

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

John R. Leathwick is an author at National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research specializing in engineering, geography, and biodiversity.

Top concepts

EngineeringGeographyBiodiversitySocial SciencesBiogeographyConservation BiologyForestryLandscape ProcessesEvolutionary BiologyDeforestation

Publications per year

1983–2023

70

Publications

70

Novel methods improve prediction of species’ distributions from occurrence data

Jane Elith, Catherine H. Graham, Robert P. Anderson et al. · Ecography · 2006 · 8.9K citations · Full text

Biodiversity, Engineering, Community Models +9

Species Distribution Models: Ecological Explanation and Prediction Across Space and Time

Jane Elith, John R. Leathwick · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2009 · 6.8K citations

Landscape Processes, Species Distribution Models, Biodiversity +11

A working guide to boosted regression trees

Jane Elith, John R. Leathwick, Trevor Hastie · Journal of Animal Ecology · 2008 · 6.3K citations · Full text

Sample selection bias and presence‐only distribution models: implications for background and pseudo‐absence data

Steven J. Phillips, Jane Elith, Catherine H. Graham et al. · Ecological Applications · 2009 · 2.8K citations · Full text

Comparative performance of generalized additive models and multivariate adaptive regression splines for statistical modelling of species distributions

John R. Leathwick, Jane Elith, Trevor Hastie · Ecological Modelling · 2006 · 439 citations

Ecological Simulation, Biogeography, Ecological Modelling +9

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