Local-scale biotic interactions embedded in macroscale climate drivers suggest Eltonian noise hypothesis distribution patterns for an invasive grass

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1447-1454

  Fraterrigo, Jennifer M ^a   Wagner, Stephanie ^a   Warren, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotic effects; Competition; Facilitation; Hierarchical Bayesian models; Macroclimate; Niche theory; Spatial scale; Species distribution modeling

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTA; CLIMATE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOTA; CLIMATE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POACEAE;

EID: 84907858492     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12352     Document Type: Article

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