Updating vegetation classifications: An example with New Zealand's woody vegetation

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 80-93

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

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b Forest Science Center of Catalonia   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alliance; Association; Clustering; Community ecology; Fuzzy classification; National Vegetation Survey (NVS) databank; Noise clustering; Vegetation databases

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DATA SET; DATABASE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; RARE SPECIES; SHRUBLAND; SUCCESSION; UNDERPINNING; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION TYPE;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84872392199     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01450.x     Document Type: Article

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