Quantifying change in distributions: A new departure index that detects, measures and describes change in distributions from population structures, size-classes and other ordered data

Oecologia

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 75-84

  Menning, K M ^a   Battles, J J ^a   Benning, T L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Quantitative analysis; Size class distributions; Statistics; Structure

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FIRE BEHAVIOR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ABIES; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; TREE;

ABIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; TREES;

EID: 35348852839     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0810-3     Document Type: Article

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