Step-less models for regional environmental variation in Norway

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1906-1922

  Bakkestuen, Vegar ^a,b   Erikstad, Lars ^b   Halvorsen, Rune ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate; Complex gradient; Data aggregation; Extent; Geographical information systems; Grain size; Principal components analysis; Regional gradients; Spatial scale; Topography

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GIS; GRAIN SIZE; LAND COVER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 51849154667     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.01941.x     Document Type: Article

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