Spatial complexity of ecological communities: Bridging the gap between probabilistic and non-probabilistic uncertainty measures

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 197, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 59-66

  Ricotta, Carlo ^a   Anand, Madhur ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diversity; Entropy; Fuzziness; Juh sz Nagy's coenological functions; Multi species pattern; Scale

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CORRELATION THEORY; ENTROPY; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

FUZZINESS; JUHÁSZ-NAGY'S COENOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; MULTI-SPECIES PATTERN;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPLEXITY; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 33746070404     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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