A methodology for assessing departure of current plant communities from historical conditions over large landscapes

Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 5: Water Pollution

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 53-63

  Steele, Brian M ^a   Reddy, Swarna K ^a   Keane, Robert E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Multivariate statistical analysis; Outliers; Principal components analysis

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

HISTORICAL CONDITIONS; LINEAR APPROXIMATION; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; OUTLIERS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; FIRE HISTORY; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTLIER; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SUCCESSION; WILDFIRE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 33947306414     PISSN: 14336863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.06.016     Document Type: Article

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