Generalized linear mixed models can detect unimodal species-environment relationships

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Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Jamil, Tahira ^a,b   ter Braak, Cajo J F ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Electrical Computer Engineering   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Environmental gradient; Gaussian logistic model; Generalized linear mixed model; Niche theory; Testing unimodal response

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GENERALIZED LINEAR MIXED MODEL; LOGLINEAR MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SIMULATION; SPECIES; SPECIES ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84885100880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.95     Document Type: Article

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