Ecuador

Identification of Characteristic Plant Co-Occurrences in Neotropical Secondary Montane Forests

Aims Inferring environmental conditions from characteristic patterns of plant co-occurrences can be crucial for the development of conservation strategies concerning secondary neotropical forests. However, no methodological agreement has been …

Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction: Alternative Ordination Approaches for Extracting and Visualizing Biodiversity Patterns in Tropical Montane Forest Vegetation Data

Ecological patterns are difficult to extract directly from vegetation data. The respective surveys provide a high number of interrelated species occurrence variables. Since often only a limited number of ecological gradients determine species …