Statistics of extremes: Modeling ecological disturbances

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1124-1134

  Katz, Richard W ^a   Brush, Grace S ^b   Parlange, Marc B ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Generalized extreme value distribution; Generalized Pareto distribution; Paleoecology; Peaks over threshold; Return level; Return period; Sediment accumulation

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 18444391250     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-0606     Document Type: Article

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