Forest community analysis in the Songshan National Nature Reserve of China using self-organizing map

Russian Journal of Ecology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 216-222

  Suriguga, ^a,b   Zhang, J T ^b   Zhang, B ^b   Cheng, J J ^b   Zhang, Q D ^b   Tian, S G ^b   Liu, S J ^c  

^a INNER MONGOLIA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Earthquake Administration of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region   (China)

Author keywords

classification; forest community; self organizing map; the Songshan National Nature Reserve

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; SELF ORGANIZATION; SLOPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION TYPE; VISUALIZATION;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; SONGSHAN NATURE RESERVE;

EID: 79957563822     PISSN: 10674136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1067413611030179     Document Type: Article

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