Long-term primary succession: A comparison of non-spatial and spatially explicit inferential techniques

Plant Ecology

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 123-136

  Cutler, Nick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community diversity; Divergent development; Iceland; Non spatial metrics; Primary succession; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSEQUENCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FORESTRY MODELING; LAVA FLOW; PATCHINESS; PIONEER SPECIES; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; SAMPLING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

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TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 77951976139     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-009-9692-2     Document Type: Article

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