Ecological boundary detection using Carlin-Chib Bayesian model selection

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 499-508

  Mac Nally, Ralph ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ANOSIM; Bayes factors; Edge; Gradient; MANOVA; Multivariate data; Species composition

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BOUNDARY; ECOTONE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 28144442058     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2005.00187.x     Document Type: Article

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