Complexity is costly: A meta-analysis of parametric and non-parametric methods for short-term population forecasting

Oikos

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 652-661

  Ward, Eric J ^a   Holmes, Eli E ^a   Thorson, James T ^a   Collen, Ben ^b  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COMPLEXITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FORECASTING METHOD; HARVESTING; MAMMAL; META-ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; SALMONID; TIME SERIES; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84900401670     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2014.00916.x     Document Type: Article

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