Estimating the rate of species introductions from the discovery record

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1822-1825

  Solow, Andrew R ^a   Costello, Christopher J ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimating rate; Maximum likelihood estimation; Poisson distribution; Species introductions

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ESTIMATION METHOD; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4444355276     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-3102     Document Type: Article

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