Adult mortality in a low-density tree population using high-resolution remote sensing

Ecology

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1700-1709

  Kellner, James R ^a   Hubbell, Stephen P ^b,c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Bayesian state space; capture recapture; hierarchical Bayes; population dynamics; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; FLOWERING; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SHRUB; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; PANAMA OESTE; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

GUAJACUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM;

BAYES THEOREM; COLORADO; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); PANAMA; PHYSIOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; TREE;

BAYES THEOREM; COLORADO; ISLANDS; PANAMA; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; TREES;

EID: 85019154398     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1847     Document Type: Article

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