Nonlinear dimensionality reduction: Alternative ordination approaches for extracting and visualizing biodiversity patterns in tropical montane forest vegetation data

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 138-149

  Mahecha, Miguel D ^a,b   Martínez, Alfredo ^a   Lischeid, Gunnar ^a   Beck, Erwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecuador; Geodesic distances; Isometric Feature Mapping (Isomap); Multidimensional Scaling (MDS); Nonlinear dimensionality reduction; Ordination; Secondary mountain tropical rain forests; Vegetation data

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DIGITAL MAP; GEODESY; GEOMETRY; MONTANE FOREST; NONLINEARITY; ORDINATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAINFOREST; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TROPICAL FOREST; VASCULAR PLANT; VISUALIZATION;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 34548471783     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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