Significant Pairwise Co-occurrence Patterns Are Not the Rule in the Majority of Biotic Communities
Our aim was to investigate species co-occurrence patterns in a large number of published biotic communities, in order to document to what extent species associations can be found in presence-absence matrices. We also aim to compare and evaluate two metrics that focus on species pairs (the ‘natural’...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2012-04-01
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| Series: | Diversity |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/4/2/179/ |