Multiscale sources of variation in ecological variables: Modeling spatial dispersion, elaborating sampling designs

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-25

  Bellehumeur, Claude ^a   Legendre, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; Correlogram; Fractal; Sampling design; Spatial pattern; Variogram

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MODELING; SAMPLING; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 0031874832     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007903325977     Document Type: Article

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