Modeling photosynthesis of Spartina alterniflora (smooth cordgrass) impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill using Bayesian inference

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Wu, Wei ^a   Biber, Patrick D ^a   Peterson, Mark S ^a   Gong, Chongfeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Deepwater Horizon oil spill; hierarchical Bayesian models; multi scale; photosynthesis; salt marsh

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; OIL SPILLS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WETLANDS;

DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILLS; HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN; HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN MODELS; MULTISCALES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS RATE; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVE RADIATIONS; SALT MARSHES; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; GRASS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; OIL SPILL; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; POLLUTION EFFECT; SALTMARSH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

MISSISSIPPI; UNITED STATES;

SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 84867037423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/045302     Document Type: Article

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