Abstract: The present chapter deals with methods developed for the analysis of scale-dependent structures of ecological data. These methods are based on sets of variables describing spatial structures derived from the coordinates of the sites or from the neighbourhood relationships among sites. These variables are used to model the spatial structures of ecological data by means of multiple regression or canonical ordination, and to identify significant spatial structures at all spatial scales that can be perceived by the sampling design. Practically, you will learn how to compute spatial correlation measures and draw spatial correlograms; learn how to construct spatial descriptors derived from site coordinates and from links between sites; identify, test and interpret scale-dependent spatial structures; combine spatial analysis and variation partitioning; and assess spatial structures in canonical ordinations by computing variograms of explained and residual ordination scores.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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