Local environmental effects and spatial effects in macroecological studies using mapped abundance classes: The case of the rook Corvus frugilegus in Scotland

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1140-1146

  Gimona, A ^a   Brewer, M J ^b  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Dispersal; Ordinal probit model; Source sink dynamics; Species distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AUTOCORRELATION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GRASSLAND; MACROECOLOGY; PASSERINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SOIL PROPERTY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROW; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CROWS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SCOTLAND;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; CORVUS FRUGILEGUS;

EID: 33746822204     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01134.x     Document Type: Article

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