Classification of breeding bird communities along an urbanization gradient using an unsupervised artificial neural network

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 203, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 62-71

  Lee, Jangho ^a   Kwak, Inn Sil ^b   Lee, Eungkyoung ^a   Kim, Kyung A ^a  

^a EnH Systems Research Institute   (South Korea)

^b Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Breeding bird assembly patterns; Classification; Self organizing map; Urbanization gradient

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FORESTRY; NEURAL NETWORKS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; VEGETATION;

BREEDING BIRD ASSEMBLY PATTERNS; UNSUPERVISED ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; URBANIZATION GRADIENTS; VEGETATIVE AREAS;

BIRDS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBANIZATION;

BIRDS; CLASSIFICATION; MAPS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PLANTS; TREES;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA; KYONGGI; SEONGNAM; SOUTH KOREA;

AVES; CONIFERALES;

EID: 34047276123     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.04.033     Document Type: Article

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