Identifying aggregation and association in fully mapped spatial data

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 554-565

  Coomes, David A ^a,b   Rees, Mark ^b   Turnbull, Lindsay ^b  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Association; Autocorrelation; Clump recognition process; Cluster analysis; Dixon's C statistic; Pattern analysis; Ripley's K function; Segregation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; ANALYTICAL METHOD; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032981987     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[0554:IAAAIF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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