A comparison of methods for predicting vegetation type

Plant Ecology

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-18

  Cairns, David M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpine; Artificial neural networks; Classification tree; Generalized linear model

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOTONE; METHODOLOGY; VEGETATION MAPPING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035659018     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011975321668     Document Type: Article

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