Dissecting the spatial structure of ecological data at multiple scales

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1826-1832

  Borcard, Daniel ^a   Legendre, Pierre ^a   Avois Jacquet, Carol ^a,b   Tuomisto, Hanna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UMR CARRTEL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll a; Oribatid mites; Principal coordinates of neighbor matrices (PCNM); Sampling design; Scale; Spatial analysis; Tropical ferns; Tropical zooplankton; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SCALE EFFECT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ACARI; FILICOPHYTA; ORIBATIDA;

EID: 4444374541     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-3111     Document Type: Article

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