CATS regression - a model-based approach to studying trait-based community assembly

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 389-398

  Warton, David I ^a   Shipley, Bill ^b   Hastie, Trevor ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community composition; Community level models; Fourth corner model; Generalized linear models; Maximum entropy; Poisson regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926655641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12280     Document Type: Article

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