Mapping pre-European settlement vegetation at fine resolutions using a hierarchical Bayesian model and GIS

Plant Ecology

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 85-94

  He, Hong S ^a   Dey, Daniel C ^b   Fan, Xiuli ^a   Hooten, Mevin B ^c   Kabrick, John M ^b   Wikle, Christopher K ^a   Fan, Zhaofei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Northern Research Station   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; GLO; Hierarchical Bayesian models; Missouri; Presettlement vegetation

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; FLOODPLAIN; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; GIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RECONSTRUCTION; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY; VEGETATION MAPPING;

MISSOURI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250222048     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-006-9216-2     Document Type: Article

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