The Landscape Similarity Toolbox: New tools for optimizing the location of control sites in experimental studies

Ecography

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1097-1101

  Dilts, Thomas E ^a   Yang, Jian ^a   Weisberg, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LANDSCAPE; OPTIMIZATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650400657     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06577.x     Document Type: Article

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