Use of confidence radii to visualise significant differences in principal components analysis: Application to mammal assemblages at locations with different disturbance levels

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 147-151

  Catlin Groves, Christina L ^a   Kirkhope, Claire L ^a   Goodenough, Anne E ^a   Stafford, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Community assemblage; Confidence intervals; Disturbance; Mammals; Principal components analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA SET; MAMMAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ENGLAND; ESSEX [ENGLAND]; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 68249128478     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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