Sampling-variance effects on detecting density dependence from temporal trends in natural populations

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 445-463

  Shenk, Tanya M ^a,c   White, Gary C ^a   Burnham, Kenneth P ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Colorado Division of Wildlife ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bulmer's R test; Bulmer's R* test; Dennis and Taper's test for density dependence; Density dependence; Monte Carlo simulation; Pollard et al.'s randomization test; Process variation; Sampling variance; Statistical power; Type I error rates

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 0031695054     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1998)068[0445:SVEODD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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