On predicting abundance from occupancy

American Naturalist

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 96-98

  Solow, Andrew R ^a   Smith, Woollcott K ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Negative binomial distribution; Optimal prediction; Species abundance; Species occupancy

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; ECOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; PROCEDURES;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; DATA COLLECTION; ECOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77953740861     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/653077     Document Type: Article

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