Predicting tree recruitment with negative binomial mixture models

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
6544664	Forest Ecology and Management	2012	7 Pages	PDF

Abstract

âº Many plots have no occurrences of tree recruitment even over periods of several years. âº The recruitment data exhibit varying degrees of dispersion and skewness. âº We developed negative binomial mixture models for predicting tree recruitment.

Keywords

Chinese pine Tree recruitment Zero-inflated negative binomial model Negative binomial model

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Predicting tree recruitment with negative binomial mixture models

Authors

Xiongqing Zhang, Yuancai Lei, Daoxiong Cai, Fengqiang Liu,