Analysis of neighborhood dynamics of forest ecosystems using likelihood methods and modeling

Ecological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 62-73

  Canham, Charles D ^a   Uriarte, María ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

AIC; Likelihood methods; Model selection; Neighborhood processes; Parameter estimation; Seed dispersal; Seedling establishment; Spatially explicit models

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 33645098974     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: 10510761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-0657     Document Type: Conference Paper

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