Beyond description: the active and effective way to infer processes from spatial patterns.
By Eliot J. B. McIntire, A. Fajardo. Ecology, 2009
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Subfields: Building and Construction, Global and Planetary Change
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- Stéphane Dray
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- H. Wagner
- F. Guillaume Blanchet
- J. Vleminckx
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Citations in the corpus
- Disentangling good from bad practices in the selection of spatial or phylogenetic eigenvectors (2018, background): “On the other hand, spatial patterns of species distribution may give crucial clues about possible underlying ecological processes (McIntire and Fajardo 2009), a view in which space is not considered an issue but a surrogate of the underlying ecological processes (‘spatial legacy’, Peres-Neto and Leg”
- Factors and mechanisms explaining spatial heterogeneity: a review of methods for insect populations (2011, methodology): “Inferring processes from spatial patterns is a new approachmotivated by advances in statistical and mechanistic modelling (Grimm et al. 2005; McIntire & Fajardo 2009) (Fig.”
- Adopting a spatially explicit perspective to study the mysterious fairy circles of Namibia (2015, methodology): “Once we know the detailed characteristics of the spatial patterns we can ask if the mechanisms underlying the different hypotheses would be able to generate patterns with these characteristics (McIntire and Fajardo 2009).”
- Community ecology in the age of multivariate multiscale spatial analysis (2012, background): “Key words: ecological community; multivariate spatial data; ordination; spatial autocorrelation; spatial connectivity; spatial eigenfunction; spatial structure; spatial weight.”
- The roles of environmental filtering and colonization in the fine‐scale spatial patterning of ground‐layer plant communities in north temperate deciduous forests (2011, background): “SCR may be attributed to an unmeasured spatial process such as dispersal limitation or disturbance history (McIntire & Fajardo 2009).”
- Species associations in an old‐growth temperate forest in north‐eastern China (2010, positive): “…with contrasting characteristics (e.g. tropical vs. temperate forest) may finally allow us to identify indicative patterns in the data to distinguish among competing theories of species coexistence (Wiegand et al. 2003; Grimm et al. 2005; McIntire & Fajardo 2009; Wiegand, Huth &Martı́nez 2009).”