Statistical determination of diagnostic species for site groups of unequal size

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 809-818

  Tichý, Lubomír ^a   Chytrý, Milan ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Community classification; Dufr ne Legendre Indicator Value index; Fidelity; Phi coefficient; Presence absence data; Vegetation database

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DATABASE; INDEX METHOD; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SITE FIDELITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION INDEX;

EID: 33846931830     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1658/1100-9233(2006)17[809:SDODSF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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