Modeling and spatial prediction of pre-settlement patterns of forest distribution using witness tree data

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 427-448

  Rathbun, Stephen L ^a   Black, Bryan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical spatial model; Conditional autoregressive model; MCMC algorithm; Poisson point process

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; POISSON RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY; TREE;

EID: 33750586144     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-006-0021-9     Document Type: Article

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