Decomposing biodiversity data using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation model, a probabilistic multivariate statistical method

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1591-1601

  Valle, Denis ^a   Baiser, Benjamin ^a   Woodall, Christopher W ^b   Chazdon, Robin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity data; Cluster analysis; Community ecology; Latent Dirichlet Allocation; Multivariate statistics; Text mining

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GLOBAL CHANGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION ECOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SITE SELECTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUCCESSION; TREE RING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

INDIANA; MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTA RICA; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE; UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTA RICA; INDIANA; MINNESOTA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TREES;

EID: 84939154152     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12380     Document Type: Article

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