Spectral distance decay: Assessing species beta-diversity by quantile regression

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1225-1230

  Rocchinl, Duccio ^a   Nagendra, Harinl ^b,c   Ghate, Rucha ^d   Cade, Brian S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Institute for Research and Development   (India)

^e FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY;

DEPENDENT VARIABLES; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; QUANTILE REGRESSION; REGRESSION ESTIMATES; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; RESIDUAL SUM OF SQUARES; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECTRAL DISTANCES;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BIODIVERSITY; DATA SET; DIVERSITY INDEX; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 70350540365     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/pers.75.10.1225     Document Type: Article

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