Red-blue plots for detecting clusters in count data

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 106-113

  Perry, Joe N ^a   Winder, Linton ^b   Holland, John M ^c   Alston, Robert D ^d  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c GAME CONSERVANCY TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL MANCHESTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Aphids; Biometry; Clusters; Counts; Heterogeneity; Patchiness; Populati on density; SADIE; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033045608     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.22057.x     Document Type: Article

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