Selecting a distributional assumption for modelling relative densities of benthic macroinvertebrates

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Gray, Brian R ^a  

^a UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hexagenia; Hurdle models; LTRMP; Mayflies; Negative binomial distribution; Two stage models; Zero inflated count models

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DISTRIBUTIONAL SAMPLING; MACROINVERTEBRATES; RANDOM VARIABLES; STOCHASTIC ZEROS;

ECOLOGY;

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MACROINVERTEBRATE; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAGENIA;

EID: 15944401216     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2004.11.006     Document Type: Article

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