Modeling species-habitat relationships with spatially autocorrelated observation data

Ecological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1945-1958

  Wintle, Brendan A ^a   Bardos, D C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autologistic; Greater glider; Habitat modeling; Logistic regression; Petauroides australis; Petauroides volans; Spatial autocorrelation; Virtual glider; WinBUGS; Yellow bellied glider

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; AUTOCORRELATION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; MARSUPIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

METATHERIA; PETAUROIDES; PETAUROIDES VOLANS; PETAURUS AUSTRALIS;

EID: 33749565507     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: 10510761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2006)016[1945:MSRWSA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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