Modelling pin-point plant cover data along an environmental gradient

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 214, Issue 2-4, 2008, Pages 404-410

  Damgaard, Christian ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conservation; Environmental gradient; Environmental threshold; Habitat model; Point intercept; Spatial structure; Species distribution model; Zero inflated generalised binomial distribution

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL THRESHOLD; HABITAT MODEL; SPATIAL STRUCTURES; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODEL; ZERO-INFLATED GENERALISED BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CARBON; CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; HABITAT TYPE; NITROGEN; PLANT; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY; THRESHOLD;

EID: 43049164274     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.03.012     Document Type: Article

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