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Develoments in Numerical Ecology

By Pierre Legendre , Louis Legendre (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
1987
ISBN
978-3-642-70882-4, 978-3-642-70880-0
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-70880-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (22802405 bytes)
Series
NATO ASI Series 14
Edition
1
Pages
585\582
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Ecology; Mathematical and Computational Biology; SHealth SciencesMedicine

Description

From earlier ecological studies it has become apparent that simple univariate or bivariate statistics are often inappropriate, and that multivariate statistical analyses must be applied. Despite several difficulties arising from the application of multivariate methods, community ecology has acquired a mathematical framework, with three consequences: it can develop as an exact science; it can be applied operationally as a computer-assisted science to the solution of environmental problems; and it can exchange information with other disciplines using the language of mathematics. This book comprises the invited lectures, as well as working group reports, on the NATO workshop held in Roscoff (France) to improve the applicability of this new method numerical ecology to specific ecological problems.

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