Extending nonlinear analysis to short ecological time series

American Naturalist

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-80

  Hsieh, Chih Hao ^a   Anderson, Christian ^a   Sugihara, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite time series; Dewdrop regression; Dimensionality; Forecasting; Nonlinearity; S map

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEARITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; TIME SERIES;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; TIME;

ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38349129454     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/524202     Document Type: Article

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