Attempted tests of the surrogacy value of the ED environmental diversity measures highlight the need for corroboration assessment of surrogacy hypotheses

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 745-748

  Faith, Daniel P ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity surrogates; Corroboration; ED; Environmental diversity; Ordination; Philosophy of science

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ECOLOGY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY;

BIODIVERSITY SURROGATES; CORROBORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DIVERSITIES; ORDINATION; PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GUIDELINE; ORDINATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHILOSOPHY; SURROGATE METHOD; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 79954420511     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.06.019     Document Type: Article

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