Effects of drought and habitat fragmentation on a tropical understory plant.

This is part of series about distributed lag non-linear models. Please read the first post for an introduction and a disclaimer. Since I’ve been working so much with GAMs for this project, I decided to read sections of Simon Wood’s book, Generalized additive models: an introduction with R more thoroughly.

This is part of series about distributed lag non-linear models. Please read the first post for an introduction and a disclaimer. A major goal of my postdoc project is to determine whether drought has an effect on plant vital rates (growth, survival, reproduction, recruitment).

This is part of series about distributed lag non-linear models. Please read the first post for an introduction and a disclaimer. Choosing marginal function to construct a crossbasis According to Gasparrini et al.

Welcome / Disclaimer This is the beginning of a series of blog posts where I publicly stumble my way through figuring out some confusing, complicated, and, frankly, cutting-edge modeling and statistics.

This is part of series about distributed lag non-linear models. Please read the first post for an introduction and a disclaimer. The dlnm package The dlnm package offers two ways of fitting crossbasis functions: an “internal” and an “external” method.

Deforestation often results in landscapes where remaining forest habitat is highly fragmented, with remnants of different sizes …

Selected References: Scott, E.R., Uriarte, M., Bruna, E.M., 2022. Delayed effects of climate on vital rates lead to demographic divergence in Amazonian forest fragments. Global Change Biology 28, 463–479.

Anthropogenic climate change is causing an increased frequency and severity of extreme precipitation events (i.e. droughts and …