Exploratory analysis for complex-life-cycle amphibians: Revealing complex forest-reproductive effort relationships using redundancy analysis

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 270, Issue , 2012, Pages 175-182

  Howard, Joanna Hawley ^a   Baldwin, Robert F ^a   Brown, Bryan L ^a,b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian ecology; Redundancy analysis; Species environment relationships; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN SPECIES; CANOPY COVER; DATA SETS; EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; FOREST STRUCTURE; HYDROPERIODS; INDIVIDUAL TREE; MICROCLIMATE CONDITIONS; MODEL SELECTION; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION; PRIORI MODEL; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; REGRESSION METHOD; SPATIAL SCALE; SPECIES-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS; TEMPORAL SCALE; TREE SPECIES;

DATA REDUCTION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; OCEAN HABITATS; REDUNDANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FORESTRY;

AMPHIBIAN; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COMPLEXITY; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HYDROPERIOD; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY; MICROCLIMATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

DATA PROCESSING; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECIFICATIONS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA MACULATUM; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; LITHOBATES; RANA SYLVATICA; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 84857012496     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.01.021     Document Type: Article

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