Using uncertainty estimates in analyses of population time series

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2097-2107

  Knape, Jonas ^a,c   Besbeas, Panagiotis ^b   De Valpine, Perry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Abundance data; Breeding bird survey; Gompertz state space model; Kalman filter; Observation error; Ovenbird; Process noise; Replicated sampling

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; AVIFAUNA; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; NATURE CONSERVATION; SAMPLING; SONGBIRD; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84884898399     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0712.1     Document Type: Article

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