Clustering species using a model of population dynamics and aggregation theory

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 152-160

  Picard, Nicolas ^a   Mortier, Frédéric ^a   Rossi, Vivien ^a   Gourlet Fleury, Sylvie ^a  

^a CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Aggregation theory; Species grouping; Species richness; Tropical rainforest; Usher model

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION THEORY; BIAS AND VARIANCE; CLASSICAL METHODS; CLUSTERING METHODS; DATA POOLING; DATA SETS; FRENCH GUIANA; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MATRIX MODEL; QUADRATIC ERRORS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE SPECIES; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; USHER MODEL; WARD'S METHOD;

ELECTRIC LOADS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; TROPICS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION MODELING; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL FOREST; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

FRENCH GUIANA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 70549085014     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.10.013     Document Type: Article

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