Ordination analysis of Taxus Chinensis var. Mairei forests based on artificial neural network theory

International Journal of Biomathematics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 69-78

  Zhang, Jin Tun ^a   Ru, Wenming ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHANGZHI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Neural network; quantitative method; self organizing feature map; Taxus; vegetation analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863116213     PISSN: 17935245     EISSN: 17937159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1793524510000854     Document Type: Article

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