Revealing biogeographical patterns by nonlinear ordinations and derived anisotropic spatial filters

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 284-296

  Mahecha, Miguel D ^a,b   Schmidtlein, Sebastian ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropic spatial autocorrelation; Floristic survey; FLORKART; Germany; Hierarchicalvariance partitioning; Isomap; Nonlinear dimensionality reduction; PC(An)NM; Sampling artefacts

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; AUTOCORRELATION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EIGENVALUE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FAUNISTICS; FLORISTICS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MODELING; ORDINATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SAMPLING BIAS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TEMPERATURE; VASCULAR PLANT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 38949111356     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00368.x     Document Type: Article

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