Comparing agglomerative clustering and three weed classification frameworks to assess the invasiveness of alien species across spatial scales

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 633-644

  Lawes, Roger A ^a,b   Murphy, Helen T ^a,b   Grice, Anthony C ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b The CRC for Australian Weed Management   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Classification frameworks; Clustering; Invasive species; Landscape scale; Ordination

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CATCHMENT; CLASSIFICATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; ORDINATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRANSECT; WEED;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BURDEKIN RIVER; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 33750452719     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2006.00291.x     Document Type: Article

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