Towards consistency in vegetation classification

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 387-393

  de Cáceres, Miquel ^a   Wiser, Susan K ^b  

^a Forest Science Center of Catalonia   (Spain)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Diagnostic species; Fuzzy C means; K means; Physiognomy; Phytosociology; Relev data; Supervised classification; TWINSPAN; Unsupervised classification; Vegetation databanks.; Vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PHYTOSOCIOLOGY; STANDARDIZATION; TWINSPAN; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION MAPPING; VEGETATION TYPE;

EID: 84858335406     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01354.x     Document Type: Article

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