Subjectively sampled vegetation data: Don't throw out the baby with the bath water

Folia Geobotanica

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 169-178

  Lepš, Jan ^a   Šmilauer, Petr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Assumption violation; Braun Blanquet relev s; Experiments; Test robustness; Vegetation database

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; DATABASE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHYTOSOCIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

EID: 34347270475     PISSN: 12119520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02893883     Document Type: Article

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