Representativeness-based sampling network design for the State of Alaska

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1567-1586

  Hoffman, Forrest M ^a,b   Kumar, Jitendra ^b   Mills, Richard T ^b   Hargrove, William W ^c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Cluster analysis; Ecoregions; Network design; Permafrost; Representativeness

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOREGION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NETWORK DESIGN; PERMAFROST; SAMPLING; SITE SELECTION;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884816447     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-013-9902-0     Document Type: Article

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