Two statistical methods for the detection of environmental thresholds

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 166, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 87-97

  Qian, Song S ^a   King, Ryan S ^b,c   Richardson, Curtis J ^b  

^a Cadmus Group Inc   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bray Curtis dissimilarity; Changepoint; Deviance; Everglades; Gibbs sampling; Macroinvertebrate; Nonparametric; Total phosphorus

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD;

EID: 0346186142     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(03)00097-8     Document Type: Article

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