The importance of observation versus process error in analyses of global ungulate populations

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ahrestani, Farshid S ^a   Hebblewhite, Mark ^b   Post, Eric ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DEER; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DEER; GEOGRAPHY; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84889573828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03125     Document Type: Article

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