Is spectral distance a proxy of beta diversity at different taxonomic ranks? A test using quantile regression

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 254-259

  Rocchini, Duccio ^a   He, Kate S ^b   Zhang, Jianting ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c City College of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

MODIS; NDVI; Quantile regression; Species turnover; Taxonomic rank

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; TESTING METHOD;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69749125947     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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