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SUBMITTER: Wu CD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5128799 | biostudies-other | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Wu Chih-Da CD Cheng Chi-Chuan CC Chang Che-Chang CC Lin Chinsu C Chang Kun-Cheng KC Chuang Yung-Chung YC
Scientific reports 20161130
This study proposed a novel methodology to classify the shape of gaps using landscape indices and multivariate statistics. Patch-level indices were used to collect the qualified shape and spatial configuration characteristics for canopy gaps in the Lienhuachih Experimental Forest in Taiwan in 1998 and 2002. Non-hierarchical cluster analysis was used to assess the optimal number of gap clusters and canonical discriminant analysis was used to generate the discriminant functions for canopy gap clas ...[more]