Effects of sampling error and temporal correlations in population growth on process variance estimators

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 547-560

  Staples, David F ^a,b   Taper, Mark L ^a   Dennis, Brian ^c   Boik, Robert J ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental correlations; Exponential population growth; Measurement error; Model error; Population monitoring; Population viability analysis; Viable population monitoring

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 70450252452     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-008-0097-5     Document Type: Article

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