Modelling the abundance of three key plant species in New Zealand hill-pasture using a decision tree approach

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1819-1825

  Wan, Liqiang ^a   Zhang, Baisen ^b   Kemp, Peter ^b   Li, Xianglin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Decision tree; GIS; Hill pasture; Modelling; Regression model; Species abundance

Indexed keywords

GIS; HILL-PASTURE; MODELLING; REGRESSION MODEL; SPECIES ABUNDANCE;

AGRICULTURE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION TREES; EQUATIONS OF STATE; FERTILIZERS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

ABUNDANCE; HILL; PASTURE; POPULATION MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

AGROSTIS; AGROSTIS CAPILLARIS; LOLIUM; LOLIUM PERENNE; TRIFOLIUM REPENS;

EID: 66149179005     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.04.031     Document Type: Article

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