Forest vulnerability to drought is expected to increase under anthropogenic climate change,
and drought-induced mortality and community dynamics following drought have major …

Numerical Ecology with R provides a long-awaited bridge between a textbook in Numerical
Ecology and the implementation of this discipline in the R language. After short theoretical …

Indicator species are often determined using an analysis of the relationship between the
species occurrence or abundance values from a set of sites and the classification of the …

Aims Classification of vegetation is an essential tool to describe, understand, predict and
manage biodiversity. Given the multiplicity of approaches to classify vegetation, it is …

Aim Formalized classifications synthesizing vegetation data at the continental scale are
being attempted only now, although they are of key importance for nature conservation …

Ecologists have long been interested in how communities change over time. Addressing
questions about community dynamics requires ways of representing and comparing the …

Cluster analysis plays vital role in pattern recognition in several fields of science. Silhouette
width is a widely used index for assessing the fit of individual objects in the classification, as …

Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Using R is the first hands-on guide to using the R
statistical computing system written specifically for archaeologists. It shows how to use the …

Fire regimes are shifting or are expected to do so under global change. Current fire
suppression is not able to control all wildfires, and its capability to do so might be …

More than half of global wetlands have been lost because of anthropogenic disturbance,
with the trend of decline continuing in the 21st century. While much of this loss relates to …