Assessing Changes in the Abundance of the Continental Population of Scaup Using a Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Model

• Main Author: Ross, Beth E.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Utah State University 2012
• Subjects: Canada; Laplace; Parkland; Aythya marila; greater scaup
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.26076/1561-203c; https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/gradreports/106

In ecological studies, the goal is often to describe and gain further insight into ecological processes underlying the data collected during observational studies. Because of the nature of observational data, it can often be difficult to separate the variation in the data from the underlying process...