Using image-analysis to quantify the horizontal vegetation pattern in two multi-species savanna grasslands

Plant Ecology

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 231-237

  Fransen, Bart ^a,b   De Boer, Miriam ^a   Terlou, Maarten ^a   During, Heinjo ^a   Dijkman, Wim ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competition; Nearest neighbour analyses; Neighbourhood analyses; Perennial grasses; Savanna; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; COMPETITION; GRASS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SAVANNA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0031691698     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009706621867     Document Type: Article

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