Strong influence of variable treatment on the performance of numerically defined ecological regions

Environmental Management

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 658-670

  Snelder, Ton ^a   Lehmann, Anthony ^b,c   Lamouroux, Nicolas ^a   Leathwick, John ^d   Allenbach, Karin ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNEP/DEWA/GRID Europe   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Classification; Classification strength; Dissimilarity model; Ecological; Environmental; Land classes; Region; Regionalization

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION STRENGTH; DISSIMILARITY MODEL; ECOLOGICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL; LAND CLASSES; REGION; REGIONALIZATION;

CELL MEMBRANES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS);

FORESTRY;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; AGGLOMERATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND EVALUATION; LITHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONALIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOPOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; LAND USE; MODEL; PERFORMANCE; PHOTOGRAPHY; REGIONALIZATION; SWITZERLAND; TOPOGRAPHY; TRAINING;

DATA COLLECTION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SWITZERLAND;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 70349777286     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-009-9352-2     Document Type: Article

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