Sampling bias in the determination of first and last occurrences

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 4, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 201-211

  Clark, Robert M ^a   Thompson, Roy ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; Bias; Climate change; First flowering; Migration dates; N dimensional multivariate normal distribution; Phenology; Statistical model

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84863419963     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2011.584914     Document Type: Article

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