Large scale related effects on the determination of plant communities and relationships with environmental variables

Community Ecology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 157-164

  Drewa, P B ^a,b   Bradfield, G E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental variance explained; Grain size; Minimum increase of sum of squares cluster analysis; Principal component analysis; Sampling scale; Vegetation classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142051151     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: 15882756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.1.2000.2.5     Document Type: Article

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