Scale sensitivity of synthetic long-term vegetation time series derived through overlay of short-term field records

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 471-478

  Wildi, Otto ^a   Schütz, Martin ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Data transformation; Ecoinformatics; Emergent time frame; Minimum spanning tree; Permanent plots; Secondary succession

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAUBUNDEN; SWISS NATIONAL PARK; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 34249985249     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1658/1100-9233(2007)18[471:SSOSLV]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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