Community versus single-species distribution models for British plants

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1524-1535

  Chapman, Daniel S ^a   Purse, Bethan V ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AUC; Bioclimate envelope model; Climate change; Ecological niche factor; Great Britain; Multivariate statistics; Ordination

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOCORRELATION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; GLOBAL CHANGE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MAGNITUDE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NICHE; ORDINATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79960248720     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02517.x     Document Type: Article

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