On the distribution of plant abundance data

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 76-82

  Damgaard, Christian ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Hierarchical sampling; Pin point; Plant cover; Point intercept; Spatial scale; Zero inflated and bounded beta distribution; Zero inflated generalised binomial distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; DATA SET; MONITORING SYSTEM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SAMPLING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 67349253409     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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