Quantifying parameter uncertainty in a coral reef model using Metropolis-Coupled Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1337-1347

  Clancy, Damian ^a   Tanner, Jason E ^b,c   McWilliam, Stephen ^a   Spencer, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Community dynamics; Coral reefs; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Parameter uncertainty; Time series

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN STATISTICS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CORAL REEF; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; FORECASTING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REEFS; TIME SERIES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CORAL; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; HERON ISLAND; QUEENSLAND;

ACROPORIDAE; ALCYONACEA; ANTHOZOA; POCILLOPORIDAE;

EID: 77949914395     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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