Quantification of neighbourhood-dependent plant growth by Bayesian hierarchical modelling

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 310-321

  Schneider, Manuel K ^a,c   Law, Richard ^a   Illian, Janine B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Bayesian statistics; Competition kernel; Competitive asymmetry; Gompertz growth; Local competition; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; MCMC; Neighbourhood; Spatial interactions

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); GROWTH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SIZE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 33645080176     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01079.x     Document Type: Article

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