Multivariate regression trees: A new technique for modeling species-environment relationships

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1105-1117

  De'ath, Glenn ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Canonical correspondence analysis; CART; Classification tree; Cluster analysis; Cross validation; Ecological distance; Gradient analysis; Multivariate regression tree; Ordination; Prediction; Redundancy analysis; Regression tree

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; SPECIES CONCEPT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0011153447     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[1105:MRTANT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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