A new metric for evaluating the correspondence of spatial patterns in vegetation models

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 465-478

  Tang, Guoping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological variable; Model comparison; Model evaluation; Opposite and identity index; Spatiotemporal data; Vegetation model

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 44949136306     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00382.x     Document Type: Article

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