Advances in modeling highlight a tension between analytical accuracy and accessibility

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3488-3492

  Ladeau, Shannon ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANALYTICAL METHOD; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; GLOBAL CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESEARCH WORK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEER; ECOSYSTEM;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; WASTING DISEASE, CHRONIC;

EID: 78650374907     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2249.1     Document Type: Article

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