Multivariate Conditional Granger Causality Analysis for Lagged Response of Soil Respiration in a Temperate Forest

Entropy

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4266-4284

  Detto, Matteo ^a   Bohrer, Gil ^b   Nietz, Jennifer Goedhart ^c   Maurer, Kyle D ^b   Vogel, Chris S ^d   Gough, Chris M ^e   Curtis, Peter S ^c  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entropy; Environmental studies; Multivariate Granger causality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896318262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e15104266     Document Type: Article

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