Detecting amphibian population cycles: The importance of appropriate statistical analyses

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 455-461

  Salvidio, Sebastiano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amphibian declines; Autocorrelation function; Density dependence; Population dynamics; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; CLIMATE VARIATION; DETECTION METHOD; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PERIODICITY; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 58149214016     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.10.035     Document Type: Article

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