The statistical analysis of insect phenology

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 355-361

  Murtaugh, Paul A ^a   Emerson, Sarah C ^a   McEvoy, Peter B ^a   Higgs, Kimberley M ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

logistic; phenology; t test; Tyria jacobaeae

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LIFE CYCLE; MOTH; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; INSECTS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

HEXAPODA; TYRIA JACOBAEAE;

EID: 84859715889     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN11260     Document Type: Article

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