Multivariate statistical analysis in community ecology: possibilities and limitations

• Authors: NÉMETHOVÁ Danka
• Year of publication: 2005
• Type: Article in Proceedings
• Conference: Proceedings of the 1st International Summer School on Computational Biology
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Field: Ecology
• Keywords: cluster analysis; ordination; biological communities
• Description: The paper is devoted to introducing the most common multivariate techniques used in community ecology. The first part deals with classification (hierarchical, non-hierarchical), the second part deals with ordination (indirect and direct gradient analysis).

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