Effects of sampling unit resolution on the estimation of spatial autocorrelation

Ecoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 636-641

  Fortin, Marie Josée ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Moran's I; Scaling; Stationarity; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CORRELATION; SAMPLING;

EID: 0033506878     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1999.11682547     Document Type: Article

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