An unconventional approach to ecosystem unit classification in western North Carolina, USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 114, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 405-420

  Henry McNab, W ^a   A Browning, Sara ^a   Simon, Steven A ^a   Fouts, Penelope E ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b PO Box 833   (United States)

Author keywords

CANOCO; Canonical correspondence analysis; Detrended correspondence analysis; Discriminant analysis; Presence absence transformation; TWINSPAN

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; MOUNTAIN REGION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0344178157     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(98)00371-5     Document Type: Article

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