Quantifying aggregation and association in three-dimensional landscapes

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2332-2340

  Scheuerell, Mark D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Association; Hydroacoustics; Lake Washington; Nearest neighbor; Predator; Prey; Ripley's K; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

LAKE WASHINGTON; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

PISCES;

EID: 8144221240     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0280     Document Type: Article

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