Improved testing of species traits-environment relationships in the fourth-corner problem

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1525-1526

  Braak, Cajo J F Ter ^a   Cormont, Anouk ^a   Dray, Sté Phane ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Ecological community; Fourth corner statistic; Functional ecology; Permutational model; RLQ analysis; Sequential test; Species traits

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84864188751     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0126.1     Document Type: Article

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