Random-effects ordination: Describing and predicting multivariate correlations and co-occurrences

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 635-663

  Walker, Steven C ^a   Jackson, Donald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

AIC; Community ecology; Cross validation; Ecoinformatics; Information criteria; Multivariate; Ordination; Random effects; Statistical ecology

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; ORDINATION; PREDICTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 83155167559     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0886.1     Document Type: Article

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