Community Ecology
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Volume 1: Issue 1
Additive trees in the analysis of community data
Authors: J. Podani 1 , P. Csontos 2 , and J. Tamás 3
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  • 1 Department of Plant Taxonomy and Ecology, Eötvös University Ludovika tér 2, H-1083 Budapest, Hungary
  • 2 Department of Plant Taxonomy and Ecology, Eötvös University Ludovika tér 2, H-1083 Budapest, Hungary
  • 3 Department of Plant Taxonomy and Ecology, Eötvös University Ludovika tér 2, H-1083 Budapest, Hungary
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/comec.1.2000.1.6
Page Count:
33–41
Publication Date:
01 Jul 2000
Online Publication Date:
26 Jan 2006
Article Category:
Research Article
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The paper advocates a more extensive use of additive trees in community ecology. When the distance/dissimilarity coefficient is selected carefully, these trees can illuminate structural aspects that are not obvious otherwise. In particular, starting from squared distances based on presence/absence data, the resulting trees approximate relationships in species richness, a feature not available through other graphical techniques. The construction of additive trees is illustrated by three actual examples, representing different circumstances in the analysis of grassland community data.

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Keywords:
Succession; Succession; Succession; Classification; Dendrograms; Four-point metrics; Grasslands; Neighbor joining; Syntaxonomy; Ultrametrics

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