Determining patterns of variability in ecological communities: Time lag analysis revisited

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 271-284

  Kampichler, Christian ^a,b,c   van der Jeugd, Henk P ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSIDAD JUÁREZ AUTÓNOMA DE TABASCO   (Mexico)

^c SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Community change; Markov process; Species composition; Stochasticity; Temporal dynamics

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84878394727     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-012-0219-y     Document Type: Article

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