Developments in Numerical Ecology

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Invited Lectures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Scaling techniques

      1. Introduction to Ordination Techniques

         • John C. Gower

         Pages 3-64

      2. Some Multidimensional Scaling and Related Procedures Devised at Bell Laboratories, With Ecological Applications

         • J. Douglas Carroll

         Pages 65-138

      3. The Duality Diagram: A Means for Better Practical Applications

         • Y. Escoufier

         Pages 139-156

      4. Nonlinear Multivariate Analysis with Optimal Scaling

         • Jan de Leeuw

         Pages 157-187

      5. Joint Ordination of Species and Sites: The Unfolding Technique

         • Willem J. Heiser

         Pages 189-221

   3. Clustering under a priori models

      1. Some Non-Standard Clustering Algorithms

         • James C. Bezdek

         Pages 225-287

      2. Constrained Clustering

         • Pierre Legendre

         Pages 289-307

      3. Species Associations and Conditional Clustering: Clustering With or Without Pairwise Resemblances

         • L. P. Lefkovitch

         Pages 309-331

   4. Fractal theory

      1. Applications of Fractal Theory to Ecology

         • Serge Frontier

         Pages 335-378

   5. Path analysis for mixed variables

      1. Path Analysis with Optimal Scaling

         • Jan de Leeuw

         Pages 381-404

   6. Spatial analysis

      1. Spatial Point Pattern Analysis in Ecology

         • B. D. Ripley

         Pages 407-429

      2. Applications of Spatial Autocorrelation in Ecology

         • Robert R. Sokal, James D. Thomson

         Pages 431-466

3. Working Group Reports

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 467-467

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   2. Numerical Ecology: Developments for Microbial Ecology

      • Manfred Bölter, Pierre Legendre, Jan de Leeuw, Richard Park, Peter Schwinghamer, Stanley E. Stevens et al.

      Pages 469-484

   3. Numerical Ecology; Developments for Studying the Benthos

      • John G. Field, Roger H. Green, Francisco A. L. de Andrade, Eugenio Fresi, Phillippe Gros, Brian H. McArdle et al.

      Pages 485-494

   4. Data Analysis in Pelagic Community Studies

      • Jordi Flos, Fortunato A. Ascioti, J. Douglas Carroll, Serge Dallot, Serge Frontier, John C. Gower et al.

      Pages 495-520

   5. Numerical Ecology: Developments for Biological Oceanography and Limnology

      • Louis Legendre, Carol D. Collins, Clarice M. Yentsch, James C. Bezdek, Janet W. Campbell, Yves Escoufier et al.

      Pages 521-527

   6. Numerical Methods in Terrestrial Plant Ecology

      • R. Gittins, S. Amir, J.-L. Dupouey, W. J. Heiser, M. Meyer, R. R. Sokal et al.

      Pages 529-558

From earlier ecological studies it has become apparent that simple univariate or bivariate statistics are often inappropriate, and that multivariate statistical analyses must be applied. Despite several difficulties arising from the application of multivariate methods, community ecology has acquired a mathematical framework, with three consequences: it can develop as an exact science; it can be applied operationally as a computer-assisted science to the solution of environmental problems; and it can exchange information with other disciplines using the language of mathematics. This book comprises the invited lectures, as well as working group reports, on the NATO workshop held in Roscoff (France) to improve the applicability of this new method numerical ecology to specific ecological problems.

• algorithms
• clustering
• clustering algorithm
• correlation
• data analysis
• ecology
• environment
• limnology
• mathematics
• microbial ecology
• multidimensional scaling
• oceanography

• Département de Sciences biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

  Pierre Legendre

• Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Ste-Foy, Canada

  Louis Legendre

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