Ecoogical information from satial patterns of plants: Insights from point process theory

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 616-628

  Law, Richard ^a   Illian, Janine ^b   Burslem, David F R P ^c   Gratzer, Georg ^d   Gunatilleke, C V S ^e   Gunatilleke, I A U N ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Forest; Heterogeneous environment; Mark correlation function; Marked point process; Pair correlation function; Plant's eye view; Point pattern process; Ripley's K function; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

FOREST; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PLANT COMMUNITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 67449126232     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01510.x     Document Type: Article

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