Contrasting approaches to statistical regression in ecology and economics: FORUM

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 265-268

  Armsworth, P R ^a   Gaston, K J ^a   Hanley, N D ^b   Ruffell, R J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AIC; Ecology; Economics; Endogeneity; Land use; Parsimony; Pseudoreplication; Regression; Spatial autocorrelation; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECONOMETRICS; LAND MANAGEMENT; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 61449248315     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01628.x     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Armsworth, P.R. Roughgarden, J.E. (2001) An invitation to ecological economics. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 16, 229 234.
2. Armsworth, P.R., Kendall, B.E. Davis, F.W. (2004) An introduction to biodiversity concepts for environmental economists. Resource and Energy Economics, 26, 115 136.
3. Burnham, K.P. Anderson, D. (1998) Model Selection and Multimodel Inference: A Practical Information-Theoretic Approach. Springer, New York.
4. Chan, K.M.A., Pringle, R.M., Ranganathan, J., Boggs, C.L., Chan, Y.L., Ehrlich, P.R., Haff, P.K., Heller, N.E., Al-Khafaji, K. Macmynowski, D.P. (2007) When agendas collide: human welfare and biological conservation. Conservation Biology, 21, 59 68.
5. Dormann, C.F., McPherson, J.M., Araujo, M.B., Bivand, R., Bolliger, J., Carl, G., Davies, R.G., Hirzel, A., Jetz, W., Kissling, W.D., Kuhn, I., Ohlemuller, R., Peres-Neto, P.R., Reineking, B., Schroder, B., Schurr, F.M. Wilson, R. (2007) Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of species distributional data: a review. Ecography, 30, 609 628.
6. Ehrlich, P.R. (1997) A World of Wounds: Ecologists and the Human Dilemma. Ecology Institute, Oldendorf/Luhe.
7. Evans, K.L., Rodrigues, A.S.L., Chown, S.L. Gaston, K.J. (2006) Protected areas and regional avian species richness in South Africa. Biology Letters, 2, 184 188.
8. Grace, J.B. (2006) Structural Equation Modeling and Natural Systems. Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.
9. Hanley, N., Davies, A., Angelopoulos, K., Hamilton, A., Ross, A., Tinch, D. Watson, F. (2008) Economics determinants of biodiversity change over a 400-year period in the Scottish uplands. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45, 1557 1565.
10. Hendry, D.F. (1979) Predictive failure and econometric modelling in macroeconomics: the transaction demand for money. Economic Modelling: Current Issues and Problems in Macroeconomic Modelling in the UK and the US. (ed. P. Ormerod), pp. 217 242. Heinemann, London.
11. Hilborn, R. Mangel, M. (1997) The Ecological Detective: Confronting Models with Data. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
12. Hoekstra, J.M., Bartz, K.K, Ruckelshaus, M.H., Moslemi, J.M. Harms, T.K. (2007) Quantitative threat analysis for management of an imperiled species: chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Ecological Applications, 17, 2061 2073.
13. Hurlbert, S.H. (1984) Pseudoreplication and the design of ecological field experiments. Ecological Monographs, 54, 187 211.
14. Keeley, J.E., Brennan, T. Pfaff, A.H. (2008) Fire severity and ecosystem responses following crown fires in California shrublands. Ecological Applications, 18, 1530 1546.
15. Legendre, P. (1993) Spatial autocorrelation: trouble or new paradigm? Ecology, 74, 1659 1673.
16. Leggett, C.G. Bockstael, N. (2000) Evidence on the effects of water quality on residential land prices. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 39, 121 144.
17. Machina, M.T. (1987) Choice under uncertainty: problems solved and unsolved. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1, 121 154.
18. Ozaki, V., Ghosh, S., Goodwin, B. Shirota, R. (2008) Spatio-temporal modeling of agricultural yield data with an application to pricing crop insurance contracts. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 90, 951 961.
19. Palmquist, R. (2005) Property value models. Handbook of Environmental Economics, Volume 2: Valuing Environmental Changes (eds K-G. Maler J.R. Vincent), pp. 763 820. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
20. Starmer, C. (2000) Developments in non-expected utility theory - the hunt for a descriptive theory of choice under risk. Journal of Economic Literature, 38, 332 382.
21. Whittingham, M.J., Stephens, P.A., Bradbury, R.B. Freckleton, R.P. (2006) Why do we still use stepwise modelling in ecology and behaviour? Journal of Animal Ecology, 75, 1182 1189.
22. Wooldridge, J. (2002) Econometric Analysis of Cross-Section and Panel Data. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA.