The role of statistics in the analysis of ecosystem services

Environmetrics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 608-617

  Smith, R I ^a   Dick, J Mcp ^a   Scott, E M ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian belief networks; ECN; ISSE; Sampling; Uncertainty propagation

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; GRAPHICAL METHOD; HOLISTIC APPROACH; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; META-ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SAMPLING; SERVICE PROVISION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959919665     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.1107     Document Type: Article

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