A robust-design formulation of the incidence function model of metapopulation dynamics applied to two species of rails

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 462-474

  Risk, Benjamin B ^a,b   De Valpine, Perry ^a   Beissinger, Steven R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Area; Connectivity; False absences; Hierarchical Bayesian model; Incidence function model; Laterallus jamaicensis coturniculus and Rallus limicola; Metapopulation; Missing data; Robust design; Stochastic patch occupancy models

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIRD; BODY SIZE; COLONIZATION; CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION RISK; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; METAPOPULATION; PATCH SIZE; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

AVES; LATERALLUS; LATERALLUS JAMAICENSIS; LATERALLUS JAMAICENSIS COTURNICULUS; RALLUS LIMICOLA;

EID: 79955530154     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2402.1     Document Type: Article

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