Modelling habitat associations with fingernail clam (Family: Sphaeriidae) counts at multiple spatial scales using hierarchical count models

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 715-729

  Gray, Brian R ^a   Haro, Roger J ^b   Rogala, James T ^a   Sauer, Jennifer S ^a  

^a UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical model; LTRMP; Musculium; Negative binomial; Nonlinear mixed model; Sphaeridae; Suspended solids

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT USE; POPULATION ESTIMATION;

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

BIVALVIA; MUSCULIUM;

EID: 15944405745     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2005.01350.x     Document Type: Article

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