Mark R. T. Dale is the Provost of the University of Northern British Columbia, and Professor in the Ecosystem Science and Management Program. His research concerns the effects of interactions between plants on the spatial relationships of plants of different species in a community and the effects of population processes on the development of spatial pattern in the vegetation, as during succession. One main focus of research in the past twenty years has been the analysis of spatial structure in plant communities.
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Preface 1. Spatial concepts and notions 2. Ecological and spatial processes 3. Points, lines and graphs 4. Spatial analysis of complete point location data 5. Contiguous units analysis 6. Spatial analysis of sample data 7. Spatial relationship and multiscale analysis 8. Spatial autocorrelation and inferential tests 9. Spatial partitioning: spatial clusters and boundary detection 10. Spatial diversity analysis 11. Spatio-temporal analysis 12. Closing comments and future directions References Index.
