Community ecology in the age of multivariate multiscale spatial analysis

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 257-275

  Dray, S ^a,b   Pelissier R ^c,d   Couteron, P ^c   Fortin, M J ^e   Legendre, P ^f   Peres Neto, P R ^g   Bellier, E ^h,i   Bivand, R ^j   Blanchet, F G ^k   De Caceres M ^l   Dufour, A B ^a,b   Heegaard, E ^m   Jombart, T ^a,b,n   Munoz, F ^c   Oksanen, J ^o   Thioulouse, J ^a,b   Wagner, H H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^h INRA   (France)

ⁱ NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^j NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^l Non wood Forest Products Department   (Spain)

^m NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

ⁿ IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^o UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

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Author keywords

Ecological community; Multivariate spatial data; Ordination; Spatial autocorrelation; Spatial connectivity; Spatial eigenfunction; Spatial structure; Spatial weight

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AUTOCORRELATION; BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONNECTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; EIGENVALUE; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORDINATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864367389     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1183.1     Document Type: Review

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