Objectives and applications of a statistical environmental stratification of Europe

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 409-419

  Jongman, R H G ^a   Bunce, R G H ^a   Metzger, M J ^a   Mucher C A ^a   Howard, D C ^b   Mateus, V L ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Clustering; Environmental reporting; Environmental stratification; Europe; Hierarchical approach; Monitoring; Principal components analysis; Sampling strategy

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STRATEGIC APPROACH; STRATIFICATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33645986992     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-005-6428-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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