Downscaling species occupancy from coarse spatial scales

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1004-1014

  Azaele, Sandro ^a   Cornell, Stephen J ^a   Kunin, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Downscaling; Neyman Scott process; Occupancy area curve; Poisson cluster process; Shot noise Cox processes; Spatial point processes; Species aggregation; Species occupancy; Thomas process

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DOWNSCALING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HABITAT USE; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84860257694     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0536.1     Document Type: Article

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