Spatial autocorrelation and the scaling of species-environment relationships

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2455-2465

  De Knegt, H J ^a   Van Langevelde, F ^a   Coughenour, M B ^b   Skidmore, A K ^c   De Boer, W F ^a   Heitkonig I M A ^a   Knox, N M ^c   Slotow, R ^d   Van Der Waal, C ^a   Prins, H H T ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Landscape context; Omitted variable bias; Scale; Spatial autocorrelation; Spatial regression; Spatially lagged predictor; Species environment relationships

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AUTOCORRELATION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; TREES;

EID: 77955460517     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1359.1     Document Type: Article

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