Generalized additive mixed models for disentangling long-term trends, local anomalies, and seasonality in fruit tree phenology

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3141-3151

  Polansky, Leo ^a   Robbins, Martha M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park; Climate change; Nonparametric models; Phenology; Plant reproductive ecology; Tropical forest ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886994434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.707     Document Type: Article

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