Mapping beta diversity from space: Sparse Generalised Dissimilarity Modelling (SGDM) for analysing high-dimensional data

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 764-771

  Leitão, Pedro J ^a,b   Schwieder, Marcel ^a   Suess, Stefan ^a   Catry, Inês ^b   Milton, Edward J ^c   Moreira, Francisco ^b   Osborne, Patrick E ^c   Pinto, Manuel J ^d   van der Linden, Sebastian ^a   Hostert, Patrick ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community modelling; EnMAP; Generalised dissimilarity modelling; Hyperspectral data; Landsat; Remote sensing; Sparse canonical correlation analysis; Time series; Turnover

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 84937073076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12378     Document Type: Article

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