How to model species responses along ecological gradients - Huisman-Olff-Fresco models revisited

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1108-1117

  Jansen, Florian ^a   Oksanen, Jari ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bioindication; Environmental gradient; Hierarchical modelling; Logistic regression; Realized niche; Species optimum; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

ARABLE LAND; BOOTSTRAPPING; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SLOPE; SOFTWARE; VEGETATION;

GERMANY;

EID: 84885184672     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12050     Document Type: Article

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