Quantitative Comparison of Plant Community Hydrology Using Large-Extent, Long-Term Data

Wetlands

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 81-93

  Gann, Daniel ^a   Richards, Jennifer ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional density estimates; EDEN; Everglades; Hydrological gradients; Hydroperiod; Random forest classifier; Realized optima and tolerances; Water depth; Wetland vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925533841     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-014-0594-2     Document Type: Article

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