Vegetation and Environment: Discontinuities and Continuities

Vegetation Ecology: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 71-106

  Austin, Mike P ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Classification; Community; Continuum; Correspondence analysis; Direct ordination; Environment; Generalized linear modeling; Indirect ordination; Niche; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887238692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118452592.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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