Distinguishing niche and neutral processes: Issues in variation partitioning statistical methods and further perspectives

Variance partitioning methods, which are built upon multivariate statistics, have been widely applied in different taxa and habitats in community ecology. Here, I performed a literature review on the development and application of the methods, and then discussed the limitation of available methods a...

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Main Author: Youhua Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences 2015-06-01
Series:Computational Ecology and Software
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Online Access:http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/ces/articles/2015-5(2)/distinguishing-niche-and-neutral-processes.pdf