LOCAL SPECIALIZATION AND LANDSCAPE-LEVEL INFLUENCE ON HOST USE IN AN...

Ecology;  August 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......during 1993-1996, we document spatial variation in host plant use in relation...could be caused either by spatial variation in the insect (in either preference or performance) or by spatial variation in plants (in resistance...

Error variation in multienvironment peanut trials: within-trial spatial...

Crop Science;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Statistical procedures that account for spatial variation among plots within trials have been...addressed the topic of modeling spatial variation in crop evaluation trials by using...the benefits associated with the spatial variation modeling in a wheat (Triticum aestirum...

Spatial variation in abundance.

Ecology;  October 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......distribution; niche; population dynamics; spatial variation. Editor's Note Does the spatial distribution...to the patterns and processes of spatial variation in abundance within a species. Ecologists...magnitude and pattern of intraspecific spatial variation in local population ...

Response.

Technometrics;  May 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......location-specific background data (to control for spatial variation) cannot achieve acceptably low significance...always show statistically significant spatial variation even in small datasets, and a systematic...therefore automatically controls for spatial variation. Moreover, prior ...

Modeling spatial variation in leukemia survival data.

Journal of the American Statistical Association;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......discuss the detection and modeling of spatial variation in disease incidence, for which there...goal is to model possible residual spatial variation in survival after accounting for...standard survival analysis ignoring any spatial variation across the region. Data consist of...

Predicting spatial patterns of house prices using LPR [local percentile...

Real Estate Economics;  December 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......hedonic price equations to deal with spatial variation in house prices. Spatial patterns...deal with all of these sources of spatial variation. We propose to accommodate these...sufficient flexibility to find substantial spatial variation in house values. The parameters of...

Identifying spatial variation patterns in multivariate manufacturing...

Technometrics;  August 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......variation source causes a distinct spatial variation pattern in the measurement data...separation can be used to identify spatial variation patterns in manufacturing data. We...variation source may result in a distinct spatial variation pattern across any or all of the...

An investigation of spatial variation in soil erosion, soil properties,...

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......the existence and the importance of spatial variation in soil properties and crop production...sought to overcome the former through spatial variation in the latter. This approach assumes...terrain attributes in the prediction of spatial variation in the properties of surface soil...

Variograms of radar reflectivity to describe the spatial continuity of...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  June 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......tackle several questions such as, What spatial variation of precipitation rate can be found...the following questions: 1) What spatial variation of precipitation rate do we find...measurements depends on the degree of spatial variation, which varies in time and space and...

Phosphorus sorption by sandy soils from Western Australia: effect of...

Australian Journal of Soil Research;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......previous year. This was done by avoiding spatial variation of PBC by bulking soil samples collected...of applied P were kept separate. Spatial variation of soil properties, including Colwell...Barrow et al. (1998) also found that spatial variation of PBC was very large in their ...

Habitat associations of steelhead trout in a small stream near the...

Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences);  August 1, 2002 ;     209 words ......and velocity), and to investigate relationships between spatial variation in density of juvenile steelhead and habitat properties...water depth and to a lesser extent focal point velocity. Spatial variation in the density of the age groups was related to the arrangement...

Dependence of home outdoor particulate mass and number concentrations on...

Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......aerosol. On the contrary, a strong spatial variation was observed for Athens and to a...multi-city study, indicated that (1) spatial variation was larger for PN than for fine particulate...city were significant predictors of spatial variation, and (3) the impact of traffic and...

The effect of grain refining on macrosegregation and dendrite arm spacing...

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......titanium diboride inoculation on the spatial variation of local solidification time for...as grain size, macrosegregation, spatial variation of dendrite arm spacing, and thermal...AA5182. The results indicated that the spatial variation of dendrite arm spacing in the industrial...

Hurricane directional wave spectrum spatial variation at landfall

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......documented the hurricane wave field spatial variation in open water when Bonnie was 400...1^). The open ocean wave height spatial variation indicated that Hurricane Bonnie would...provided the first documentation of the spatial variation of the sea surface directional wave...

The geography of privatization in China, 1978-1996

Economic Geography;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......privatization process. A complex pattern of spatial variation in privatization has emerged related...ovince's economic growth. Findings on the spatial variation and changes of privatization enhance...privatization, regional development, spatial variation. In the broadest sense, ...