Improved abundance prediction from presence-absence data

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-10

  Conlisk, Erin ^a,f   Conlisk, John ^b   Enquist, Brian ^c   Thompson, Jill ^d   Harte, John ^e  

^a Pesticide Research Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Pesticide Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance prediction; Abundance occupancy; Presence absence; Serpentine grassland; Spatial autocorrelation; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; AUTOCORRELATION; MODELING; PREDICTION; SPATIAL DATA; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 57649133962     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00427.x     Document Type: Article

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