Apologies for cross-posting
There are a few places left on the following stats course:
Analysing Biological and Environmental Data -Using regression, GLM and GAM-.
When: Monday 23 April until Friday 27 April 2007.
Where: Ythan hotel, Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, UK.
Keywords: Regression, GLM and GAM
The problem I see with Gleason is that his argument is purely
rhetorical. He does use examples, but no experimental analyses of any
sort. A key point, again JMHO, is that Gleason talks of SPECIES while
Clements talks more of life forms. Clements does not predict rigid
SPECIES compositions, however
I thought I used to know what is meant by the term adaptive management but
now I'm not so sure. It seems this term is being used for every resource
management practice from business-as-usual-trial-and-error to an elaborate
and rigorous use of decision analysis and response model systems (with
Hi Warren:
Steve Ralph and I struggled with exactly your contrast of
business-as-usual vs. rigorous use of decision analysis in a book
chapter:
S.C. Ralph and G. C. Poole. 2003. Putting monitoring first: designing
accountable ecosystem restoration and management plans. In Restoration
of
