Clusters of high abundance of plants detected from local indicators of spatial association (LISA) in a semi-deciduous tropical forest.

Plants are rarely randomly distributed across communities, and patchiness is a common spatial pattern in most tropical forests. Clusters of high density of plant individuals are related to internal and external forces, as well as to historical events. The detection of aggregated patterns of plant in...

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Main Authors: José Ramón Martínez Batlle, Yntze van der Hoek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208780