Spatial modelling using the Mahalanobis statistic: Two examples from the discipline of plant geography

MODSIM05 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Advances and Applications for Management and Decision Making, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1368-1374

  DeVries, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Habitat modelling; Mahalanobis distance; Plant geography; Rainforest, Eucalyptus cannonii

Indexed keywords

ARCVIEW; BIOCLIM; CALIBRATION DATA; DATA SETS; DISTANCE MEASURE; HABITAT MODELLING; HIGH RESOLUTION; INHERENT COMPLEXITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGISTS; MAHALANOBIS; MAHALANOBIS DISTANCES; NEW SOUTH WALES; PLANT GEOGRAPHY; PLANT SPECIES; POINT DATA; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; POTENTIAL HABITAT; POTENTIAL UTILITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; RAINFOREST, EUCALYPTUS CANNONII; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; SPATIAL DATASETS; SPATIAL MODELLING; STEEP LEARNING CURVE; TREE SPECIES; UNIMODAL; VECTOR VALUED; VEGETATION COMMUNITY;

CALIBRATION; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; STATISTICS; VEGETATION; LARGE DATASET; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; DECISION MAKING;

EID: 79251520120     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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