Spatial hierarchical approach in community ecology: A way beyond high context-dependency and low predictability in local phenomena

Population Ecology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 105-117

  Noda, Takashi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Community structure; Detecting patterns; Level; Research approach; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 4644283121     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-004-0184-x     Document Type: Review

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