The role of model selection in describing stochastic ecological processes

Oikos

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 966-974

  Kuparinen, Anna ^a   Snäll, Tord ^a,b   Vänskä, Simopekka ^a   O'Hara, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FIELD SURVEY; MODEL VALIDATION; PALYNOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 34248348659     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2007.15563.x     Document Type: Article

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