Hierarchical spatial point process analysis for a plant community with high biodiversity

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 389-405

  Illian, Janine B ^a   Moslash ller, Jesper ^b   Waagepetersen, Rasmus P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Ecological plant communities; Maximum likelihood; Multivariate spatial point process; Spatial interaction

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIODIVERSITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MODELING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 67651237068     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-007-0070-8     Document Type: Article

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