Bayesian population dynamics of interacting species: Great gerbils and fleas in Kazakhstan

Biometrics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 230-238

  Frigessi, Arnoldo ^a,b   Holden, Marit ^b   Marshall, Clare ^b   Viljugrein, Hildegunn ^a   Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a   Holden, Lars ^b   Ageyev, Vladimir ^c   Klassovskiy, Nikolay L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN COMPUTING CENTER   (Norway)

^c Anti Plague Research Institute   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Density dependence; Hierarchical models; MCMC; Stratified sampling

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DYNAMICS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; POPULATION STATISTICS;

BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODELLING; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DENSITY-DEPENDENT; DISCRETE TIME; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; INTERACTING SPECIES; KAZAKHSTAN; MCMC; STRATIFIED SAMPLING;

POPULATION DYNAMICS;

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; RODENT;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; ECOSYSTEM; FLEA; GERBIL; GROWTH RATE; KAZAKHSTAN; LIFE CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; POPULATION DENSITY DEPENDENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PROBABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

EID: 15044363508     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2005.030536.x     Document Type: Article

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