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Principal Component Ordination and Simulated Vegetational Data
Author(s) -
Noy-Meir I.,
Austin M. P.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.144
H-Index - 294
eISSN - 1939-9170
pISSN - 0012-9658
DOI - 10.2307/1935398
Subject(s) - ordination , principal component analysis , vegetation (pathology) , ecology , gradient analysis , component (thermodynamics) , curvilinear coordinates , geography , physical geography , environmental science , mathematics , biology , statistics , physics , thermodynamics , medicine , geometry , pathology
Curvilinear ordinations similar to those of Swan (1970) are obtained by using principal component analysis on the same single—gradient models of vegetation. Any non—linear relationships between species will produce such a result.