Sampling variability and estimates of density dependence: A composite-likelihood approach

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 189-202

  Lele, Subhash R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

American Redstart; Breeding Bird Survey; Bull trout; Covariates in population dynamics; Estimating functions; Gompertz model; Hierarchical models; Nonstationary population dynamics; San Joaquin kit fox; Spatial time series; State space models

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; FOX; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; SONGBIRD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME; TROUT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; FOXES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PASSERIFORMES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS; TROUT;

AVES; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS CONFLUENTUS; SETOPHAGA RUTICILLA; VULPES MACROTIS MUTICA;

EID: 33644839515     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-1655     Document Type: Review

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