Use of localized descriptive statistics for exploring the spatial pattern changes of bird species richness at multiple scales

Applied Geography

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 185-194

  Ma, Zhihai ^a   Zuckerberg, Benjamin ^a,b   Porter, William F ^a   Zhang, Lianjun ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Lab of Ornithology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird species richness; Local indicators of spatial autocorrelation (LISA); Localized descriptive statistics; Localized Pearson correlation; Scale dependence

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BIRD; CLIMATE VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

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EID: 79960330701     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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