Measurement of the predictive value of species lists for species cover in phytosociological samples

✍ Scribed by Avena, Glancarlo ;Blasi, Carlo ;Eeoli, Enrico ;Scoppola, Anna

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 457 KB
• Volume: 45
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-5052
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00119216

✦ Synopsis

The method known as Analysis of Concentration (AOC) is proposed as a tool to measure the predictivity of binary data for cover data. The application of AOC to structured tables of oak forests of Central Italy has proved that binary data are more predictive for cover than cover for binary data. The ordinations produced by AOC with binary and cover data are very similar and interpretable with similar results. * The nomenclature used for species follows Zangheri (1976)• ** We are grateful to Prof. L. Orl6ci for reading the manuscript and for his comments. Mr. A. Zampar provided technical assistance.