Compositional data in community ecology: The paradigm or peril of proportions?

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 929-940

  Jackson, Donald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Compositional data, analysis; Ipsative data; Multivariate statistics; Normative data; Percentage, statistical analysis; Proportion, statistical analysis; Statistics; Statistics, proportional data

Indexed keywords

CENTERED LOG-RATIO ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 0030616851     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[0929:CDICET]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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