Divergent small-scale spatial patterns in New Zealand's short tussock grasslands

New Zealand Journal of Ecology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 76-82

  Dickinson, Yvette ^a   Norton, David A ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Festuca matthewsii; Festuca novae zelandiae; Inhomogeneous pair correlation function; Inhomogeneous ripley's k; Spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CORRELATION; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TUSSOCK GRASSLAND;

NEW ZEALAND;

FESTUCA; FESTUCA MATTHEWSII; FESTUCA NOVAE-ZELANDIAE;

EID: 79956200462     PISSN: 01106465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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