Refining spatial neighbourhoods to capture terrain effects

Ecological Processes

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-11

  Nelson, Trisalyn A ^a   Robertson, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

hot spots; spatial analysis; spatial ecology; spatial weights; topography

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; TOPOGRAPHY;

DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; HOT SPOT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ECOLOGY; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SPATIAL WEIGHTS; WATERSHED BOUNDARIES;

SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

BEETLE; ECOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHY; WATERSHED;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 84899972739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21921709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2192-1709-1-3     Document Type: Article

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