Optimal population prediction of sandhill crane recruitment based on climate-mediated habitat limitations

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1299-1310

  Gerber, Brian D ^a   Kendall, William L ^a   Hooten, Mevin B ^a   Dubovsky, James A ^b   Drewien, Roderick C ^c  

^a Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Grus canadensis; Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator; Modelling; Multicollinearity; Palmer drought index; Palmer drought severity index; Predictive; Ridge regression; SPEI; Standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT STRESS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FREEZING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; OPTIMIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNOWPACK;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

AVES; GRUIDAE; GRUS CANADENSIS;

ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLORADO; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIRDS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLORADO; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS;

EID: 84939255615     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12370     Document Type: Article

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