Identifying the best climatic predictors in ecology and evolution

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1246-1257

  van de Pol, Martijn ^a,b,c   Bailey, Liam D ^a   McLean, Nina ^a   Rijsdijk, Laurie ^a,b,d   Lawson, Callum R ^b   Brouwer, Lyanne ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c Centre for Avian Population Studies   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

bias; climate change; climate sensitivity; cross validation; false positive; precision; R package climwin; sample size; sliding window; weather

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979246883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12590     Document Type: Article

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