Long-term datasets: From descriptive to predictive data using ecoinformatics

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 457-462

  Bekker, Renée M ^a   Van Der Maarel, Eddy ^a   Bruelheide, Helge ^b   Woods, Kerry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c BENNINGTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Bioinformatics; Community ecology; Database; Macroecology; Ordination; Predictive modelling; Trait

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOINFORMATICS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; DATABASE; MODELING; ORDINATION; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 34250013117     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1658/1100-9233(2007)18[458:LDFDTP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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