Self-organizing feature map classification and ordination of Larix principis-rupprechtii forest in Pangquangou Nature Reserve

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2990-2998

  Zhang, Qindi ^a,b   Zhang, Jintun ^a   Suriguga, ^a   Zhang, Bin ^a   Cheng, Jiajia ^a   Tian, Shiguang ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Classification; Larix principis rupprechtii forest; Ordination; Pangquangou Nature Reserve; Self organizing feature map

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LITTER; MAPPING METHOD; NONLINEARITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF ORGANIZATION; SLOPE; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; THEORETICAL STUDY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CHINA; PANGQUANGOU NATURE RESERVE; SHANXI;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CROSSOPTILON MANTCHURICUM; LARIX; LARIX GMELINII VAR. PRINCIPIS-RUPPRECHTII; PICEA;

EID: 79959742255     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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