Comparison of statistical tests for habitat associations in tropical forests: A case study of sympatric dipterocarp trees in a Bornean forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 323-332

  Itoh, Akira ^a   Ohkubo, Tatsuhiro ^b   Nanami, Satoshi ^a   Tan, Sylvester ^c   Yamakura, Takuo ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Habitat association; Lambir Hills National Park; Sarawak; Spatial distribution; Torus shift; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL POPULATION; BREAK-POINTS; DIPTEROCARPS; ELEVATION GRADIENT; HABITAT CLASS; HABITAT VARIABLES; MULTIPLE TEST; NATIONAL PARKS; POWER ANALYSIS; SARAWAK; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL POWER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREE DISTRIBUTION; TREE DIVERSITY; TREE POPULATION; TROPICAL FOREST; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; TYPE-I ERROR;

FORESTRY; PARKS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAIN; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL TESTS; TROPICS;

ECOLOGY;

AUTOCORRELATION; DICOTYLEDON; HABITAT QUALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; SYMPATRY; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; BORNEO; ECOLOGY; FORESTS; PROBABILITY; RAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

EAST MALAYSIA; LAMBIR HILLS NATIONAL PARK; MALAYSIA; SARAWAK;

EID: 72649105221     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.10.022     Document Type: Article

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