Effects of spatial structures on the results of field experiments

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3202-3214

  Legendre, Pierre ^a   Dale, Mark R T ^b   Fortin, Marie Josée ^c   Casgrain, Philippe ^a   Gurevitch, Jessica ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; Autocorrelation; Field experiments; Numerical simulation study; Spatial structure

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 11844255795     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0677     Document Type: Article

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