The relationship between observational scale and explained variance in benthic communities.

This study addresses the impact of spatial scale on explaining variance in benthic communities. In particular, the analysis estimated the fraction of community variation that occurred at a spatial scale smaller than the sampling interval (i.e., the geographic distance between samples). This estimate...

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Main Authors: Alison M Flanagan, Roger D Flood, Michael G Frisk, Corey D Garza, Glenn R Lopez, Nicole P Maher, Robert M Cerrato
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5764243?pdf=render