Predicting patterns of vascular plant species richness with composite variables: A meso-scale study in Finnish Lapland

Vegetatio

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 151-165

  Heikkinen, Risto K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Canonical correspondence analysis; Diversity modelling; Floristic environmental gradients; GLM; Partial least squares regression; Subarctic

Indexed keywords

SPECIES RICHNESS; VASCULAR PLANT;

FINLAND, KEVO NATURE RESERVE;

EID: 0030302405     PISSN: 00423106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00045601     Document Type: Article

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