Differences in performance of four ordination methods on a complex vegetation dataset

Annales Botanici Fennici

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 269-275

  Ruokolainen, Lasse ^a   Salo, Kauko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Comparison; Forest succession; Indirect gradient analysis; Ordination; Procrustean analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748808110     PISSN: 00033847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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