Monotonicity-constrained species distribution models

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1895-1901

  Hofner, Benjamin ^a   Müller, Jörg ^b,c   Hothorn, Torsten ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Nationalparkverwaltung Bayerischer Wald ^*  (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bavaria; Boosting; Germany; Milvus milvus; Monotonic P splines; Ordinal variables; Red Kite breeding distribution; Spatial autocorrelation; Species distribution model; Structured additive model; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAPTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; FALCONIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; TREE;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; FALCONIFORMES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; TREES;

BAVARIA; GERMANY;

MILVUS MILVUS;

EID: 80053616945     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-2276.1     Document Type: Article

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