Dispersion-based weighting of species counts in assemblage analyses

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 320, Issue , 2006, Pages 11-27

  Clarke, K R ^a,b   Chapman, M G ^b   Somerfield, P J ^a   Needham, H R ^a  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dispersion index; Generalised Poisson; Multivariate analysis; Permutation test; Spatial clustering; Species weighting; Transformation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRUSTACEAN; DISPERSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEMATODE; POISSON RATIO; TRANSFORMATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BICENTENNIAL PARK; DEVON; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; HIGHLAND; LOCH CRERAN; NEW SOUTH WALES; SCOTLAND; SYDNEY; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; YEALM ESTUARY;

COPEPODA; NEMATODA;

EID: 33749396911     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps320011     Document Type: Article

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