Geostatistical approaches and optimal additional sampling schemes for spatial patterns and future sampling of bird diversity

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 175-188

  Lin, Yu Pin ^a   Yeh, Ming Sheng ^b   Deng, Dong Po ^c   Wang, Yung Chieh ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bird diversity; Co kriging; Genetic algorithm; Kriging; Optimal additional sampling; Simulated annealing simulation; Spatial pattern; Variogram

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BIRD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; MAPPING; NDVI; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AVES;

EID: 38949150005     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00352.x     Document Type: Article

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