Reconstructing community relationships: The impact of sampling error, ordination approach, and gradient length

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 361-371

  Hirst, Claire N ^a   Jackson, Donald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Gradient length; Multivariate statistics; Ordination; Sampling error

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; ORDINATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SAMPLING BIAS;

EID: 34250353977     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00307.x     Document Type: Article

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