Estimating regional plant biodiversity with GIS modelling

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 49-61

  Iverson, Louis R ^a   Prasad, Anantha ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Geographic information system; Illinois Plant Information Network; Landscape ecology; Multiple regression; Spatial statistics autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001908167     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-4642.1998.00007.x     Document Type: Article

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