Patterns in species associations in plant communities: The importance of scale

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 327-332

  Jonsson, Bengt Gunnar ^a   Moen, Jon ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Assembly rule; Geostatistics; Ordination; Spatial pattern; Spatial scale; Species interaction

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SCALE EFFECT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031772842     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3237097     Document Type: Article

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