Using generalized autoregressive error models to understand fire-vegetation-soil feedbacks in a mulga-spinifex landscape mosaic

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2169-2182

  Murphy, Brett P ^a   Paron, Paolo ^b   Prior, Lynda D ^a,c   Boggs, Guy S ^c   Franklin, Donald C ^c   Bowman, David M J S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Kenya)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acacia aneura; Australia; Autologistic regression; Binomial errors; Generalized linear model; Habitat suitability model; Poisson errors; Simultaneous autoregressive model; Spatial autocorrelation; Spinifex

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FIRE HISTORY; GRASSLAND; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LINEARITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POISSON RATIO; RED SOIL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHRUBLAND; VEGETATION COVER;

AUSTRALIA;

ACACIA; ACACIA ANEURA; SPINIFEX; TRIODIA;

EID: 77958511030     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02359.x     Document Type: Article

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