Much ado about nothings: Using zero similarity points in distance-decay curves

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1717-1722

  Millar, Russell B ^a   Anderson, Marti J ^b   Tolimieri, Nick ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Binomial; Bootstrap; Distance decay; Generalized dissimilarity model; Generalized linear model; Jackknife; Link function; Zero similarity

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LINEARITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 80051870725     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0029.1     Document Type: Article

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