Is the Mantel correlogram powerful enough to be useful in ecological analysis? A simulation study

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1473-1481

  Borcard, Daniel ^a   Legendre, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Correlogram; Geary; Mantel; Moran; Multiscale ordination; Multivariate variogram; Simulation study; Spatial correlation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CORRELATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; VARIOGRAM;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84862273409     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1737.1     Document Type: Article

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