Climatic influences on the flowering phenology of four eucalypts: A GAMLSS approach

Phenological Research: Methods for Environmental and Climate Change Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 209-228

  Hudson, Irene L ^a   Kim, Susan W ^a   Keatley, Marie R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cubic smoothing splines; Generalised additive model for location; Multiple time series; Scale and shape (GAMLSS); Thresholds

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952607719     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3335-2_10     Document Type: Chapter

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