Learning from single extreme events

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 1723, 2017, Pages

  Altwegg, Res ^a,b   Visser, Vernon ^a,b   Bailey, Liam D ^c   Erni, Birgit ^a  

^a Department of Statistical Sciences ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Climatic extreme; Long term study; Meta analysis; Single observation; Value of information

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EXTREME EVENT; LEARNING; META-ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD;

ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; LIFE HISTORY TRAITS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 85019144417     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0141     Document Type: Article

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