Patch occupancy models of metapopulation dynamics: Efficient parameter estimation using implicit statistical inference

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1031-1043

  Moilanen, Atte ^a  

^a Division of Population Biology   (Finland)

Author keywords

Incidence function; Markov chain; Melitaea diamina; Metapopulation; Model parameterization; Monte Carlo method; Nonlinear regression; Ochotona princeps; Regional stochasticity; Spatial pattern data; Statistically implicit model; Stochastic patch occupancy model

Indexed keywords

METAPOPULATION; MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION;

FRITILLARIA (ANGIOSPERM); MELITAEA DIAMINA; OCHOTONA PRINCEPS;

EID: 0032897463     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[1031:POMOMD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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