Spatial covariance in plant communities: Integrating ordination, geostatistics, and variance testing

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1045-1057

  Wagner, Helene H ^a,b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Interspecific associations; Multiscale ordination; Multivariate geostatistics; Nonstationarity; Spatial variance; Species richness; Variance test; Variogram matrix

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GEOSTATISTICS; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; ORDINATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0042315082     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[1045:SCIPCI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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