Extended dissimilarity: A method of robust estimation of ecological distances from high beta diversity data

Plant Ecology

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 191-199

  De'ath, Glenn ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flexible shortest path adjustment; Gradient analysis; Multidimensional scaling; Ordination; Principal coordinates analysis

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; ORDINATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0032877527     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009763730207     Document Type: Article

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