A future for models and data in environmental science

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 375-380

  Clark, James S ^a   Gelfand, Alan E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; PARADIGM SHIFT;

ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; FORECASTING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COLLECTION; ECOLOGY; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION;

EID: 33745420790     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2006.03.016     Document Type: Review

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