Quantifying effects of abiotic and biotic drivers on community dynamics with multivariate autoregressive (MAR) models

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2663-2669

  Hampton, Stephanie E ^a   Holmes, Elizabeth E ^b   Scheef, Lindsay P ^a   Scheuerell, Mark D ^b   Katz, Stephen L ^c   Pendleton, Daniel E ^b   Ward, Eric J ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c NOAA ONMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Food webs; Interaction strength; Multispecies time series; Reactivity; Resilience; Return rate; State space models; VAR; Vector autoregressive models

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DATA SET; ECONOMETRICS; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANKTON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84887764677     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0996.1     Document Type: Article

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