Rethinking ecological inference: Density dependence in reef fishes

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 715-721

  Osenberg, Craig W ^a   St Mary, Colette M ^a   Schmitt, Russell J ^a   Holbrook, Sally J ^a   Chesson, Peter ^b   Byrne, Barbara ^b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimation; Meta analysis; Null hypothesis tests; P values; Recruitment; Survival

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; META-ANALYSIS; REEF;

PISCES;

EID: 0036849996     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00377.x     Document Type: Article

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