Evaluating accuracy and precision of species - Area relationships for multiple estimators and different marine assemblages

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 754-766

  Chapman, M G ^a   Underwood, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Generality; Marine assemblages; Multiple comparisons; Nonparametric; Regression models; Species area relationships

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; GASTROPOD; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUKARYOTE; GASTROPOD; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE BIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATES; MARINE BIOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 63849228604     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0650.1     Document Type: Article

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