A comparison of self-organizing map algorithm and some conventional statistical methods for ecological community ordination

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 146, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 329-339

  Giraudel, J L ^a   Lek, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

Ecological community ordination; Neural networks; Self organizing map

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ORDINATION; SELF ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0035673991     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(01)00324-6     Document Type: Article

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