Quantitative assessment of multispecies spatial pattern with high species diversity

Ecological Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 149-163

  Shimatani, Kenichiro ^a   Kubota, Yasuhiro ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Point process; Simpson index; Spatial pattern analysis; Species diversity; Species richness

Indexed keywords

MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; OKINAWA [RYUKYU ISLANDS]; RYUKYU ISLANDS;

RYUKYU;

EID: 1842555831     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1703.2003.00619.x     Document Type: Article

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