Model-based thinking for community ecology

Plant Ecology

Volumn 216, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 669-682

  Warton, David I ^a   Foster, Scott D ^b,c   De’ath, Glenn ^d   Stoklosa, Jakub ^a   Dunstan, Piers K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c CSIRO Computational Informatics   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community level modelling; Fourth corner problem; Model checking; Multivariate analysis; Ordination; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937765931     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: 15735052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-014-0366-3     Document Type: Article

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