An evaluation of the relative robustness of techniques for ecological ordination

Vegetatio

Volumn 69, Issue 1-3, 1987, Pages 89-107

  Minchin, Peter R ^a  

^a CSIRO LAND AND WATER   (Australia)

Author keywords

Detrended correspondence analysis; Gaussian ordination; Indirect gradient analysis; Non metric multidimensional scaling; Ordination; Principal co ordinates analysis; Principal components analysis; Robustness; Simulated data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0023519385     PISSN: 00423106     EISSN: 15735052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00038690     Document Type: Article

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