Functional Group Density as an index for assessing habitat quality in tallgrass prairie

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1251-1258

  Sivicek, Valerie A ^a   Taft, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotic integrity; Discriminant Analysis; Floristic quality assessment; Plant functional groups; Rapid assessment; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC INTEGRITY; PLANT FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; RAPID ASSESSMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEMS; FISH; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ABUNDANCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; FLORISTICS; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT RESTORATION; HEMIPARASITE; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRAIRIE; SAMPLING; SEDGE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRADE-OFF;

ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

CAREX;

EID: 79955857263     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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