The importance of spatial models for estimating the strength of density dependence

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1202-1212

  Thorson, James T ^a   Skaug, Hans J ^b   Kristensen, Kasper ^c   Shelton, Andrew O ^a   Ward, Eric J ^a   Harms, John H ^a   Benante, James A ^d   Inouye, B D ^e  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Autoregressive model; Density dependence; Gaussian random field; Gompertz model; Integrated nested Laplace approximation (INLA); Pacific rockfish (Sebastes spp.); Spatial modeling; Spatial variation; Template model builder (TMB)

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALLEE EFFECT; COASTAL ZONE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SPATIAL VARIATION;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

SCORPAENIDAE; SEBASTES;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FISH; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FISHES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84926495321     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-0739.1     Document Type: Article

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