Multilevel statistical models and the analysis of experimental data

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1479-1486

  Behm, Jocelyn E ^a,b,c   Edmonds, Devin A ^b,c   Harmon, Jason P ^d   Ives, Anthony R ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fejervarya limnocharis; Heteroscedasticity; Microhyla fissipes; Parametric bootstrapping; Polypedates leucomystax; Pseudo replication; Xishuangbanna

Indexed keywords

DITERPENE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; SESPENDOLE;

AMPHIBIAN; BOOTSTRAPPING; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANIDAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; DITERPENES; ECOSYSTEM; INDOLES; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANIDAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CHINA; XISHUANGBANNA; YUNNAN;

EID: 84880532132     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-2005.1     Document Type: Article

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