Evaluating the stability of the classification of community data

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 807-813

  Tichý, Lubomír ^a   Chytrý, Milan ^a   Šmarda, Petr ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET;

EID: 80054843903     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06599.x     Document Type: Article

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