Developing a classifier for the Habitats Directive grassland types in Denmark using species lists for prediction

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 71-80

  Ejrnæs, Rasmus ^a   Bruun, Hans Henrik ^b   Aude, Erik ^a   Buchwald, Erik ^c  

^a Grenåvej 12   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c National Forest and Nature Agency   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Classification; Clustering; Community; Conservation; Discriminant analysis; Statistical modelling; Supervised classification; TWINSPAN; Vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 2542565819     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2004.tb00597.x     Document Type: Article

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