Analysis of distribution maps from bird atlas data : dissimilarities between species, continuity within ranges and smoothing of distribution maps

Includes bibliographical references. === A dissimilarity coefficient for estimating the dissimilarity between two bird atlas distributions is developed. This coefficient is based on the Euclidean distance concept. The atlas distributions are compared over all quarter degree grid cells. Existing coef...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Erni, Birgit
Other Authors: Underhill, Les
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14721