Estimating population spread: What can we forecast and how well?

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1979-1988

  Clark, James S ^a   Lewis, Mark ^b   McLachlan, Jason S ^a   HilleRisLambers, Janneke ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayes; Climate change; Dispersal; Invasion; Migration; Population spread

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CHANGE; MIGRATION; POPULATION MODELING; SEED DISPERSAL;

EID: 0345447476     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/01-0618     Document Type: Review

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