Linking demography with drivers: Climate and competition

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 171-183

  Teller, Brittany J ^a   Adler, Peter B ^a   Edwards, Collin B ^b   Hooker, Giles ^c   Ellner, Stephen P ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Competition; Demography; Drivers; Estimation; Functional data analysis; Machine learning; Splines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958956336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12486     Document Type: Article

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