Supervised classification of plant communities with artificial neural networks

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 407-414

  Černá, Lenka ^a   Chytrý, Milan ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Grassland; Multi layer perceptron; Phytosociological data; Predictive habitat modelling; Vegetation survey

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MODELING; PLANT COMMUNITY; PREDICTION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 26444585903     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2005.tb02380.x     Document Type: Article

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