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Coenocline Simulation
Author(s) -
Gauch H. G.,
Whittaker R. H.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.144
H-Index - 294
eISSN - 1939-9170
pISSN - 0012-9658
DOI - 10.2307/1934231
Subject(s) - ordination , dominance (genetics) , ecology , beta diversity , sampling (signal processing) , alpha diversity , species diversity , computer science , biology , habitat , biochemistry , filter (signal processing) , computer vision , gene
Characteristics of coenoclines, or community gradients, were studied as a basis for simulating the distribution of species populations along environmental gradients. A computer program is described which is inexpensive, realistic in the manner in which species are distributed, and flexible in that levels of alpha and beta diversity, sampling error, and other parameters can be varied. The simulated coenoclines are of interest in connection with dominance and diversity relations, measurement of ecological distance, and ordination of community samples.