Multimodel inference and the understanding of complexity, discontinuity, and normadism

Ecosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 694-699

  Allen, Craig R ^a   Saunders, Denis A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Birds; Complexity; Diet; Discontinuity; Information theoretic approach; Multimodel selection; Nomadism

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; COMPLEXITY; DIETARY SHIFT; DISCONTINUITY; GRANIVORY; NECTARIVORY; NOMADIC PEOPLE; RESEARCH WORK;

AVES;

EID: 33749127864     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-006-0048-7     Document Type: Review

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