Grid origin affects scaling of species across spatial scales

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 448-456

  Witte, Jan Philip M ^a,b   He, Fangliang ^c   Groen, Cees L G ^d  

^a KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d Stichting FLORON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distribution map; Downscaling; FLORBASE; Fractal dimension; Grid origin; Rarity; Spatial clustering; Spatial scale; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MAP; RARITY; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UPSCALING;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 42049084435     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00387.x     Document Type: Article

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