Do we need demographic data to forecast plant population dynamics?

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 541-551

  Tredennick, Andrew T ^a   Hooten, Mevin B ^b,c   Adler, Peter B ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; forecasting; grassland; integral projection model; population model; ridge regression; statistical regularization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006307736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12686     Document Type: Article

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