A comparison of methods for the statistical analysis of spatial point patterns in plant ecology

By George L. W. Perry, B. Miller, Neal J. Enright. Plant Ecology, 2006

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Geometry and Topology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Beyond description: the active and effective way to infer processes from spatial patterns. (2009, background): “This perspective has prevailed because of several known biological phenomena: (1) various processes may create the same pattern (Cale et al. 1989, Perry et al. 2006); (2) causality may not be straightforward (Rees et al. 1996, Turner et al. 2001) (e.g., well-defined nonrandom processes can produce…”
Scale-dependent competition at the stand level assessed from crown areas (2008, background): “At the stand level, competition can be detected via increased inter-tree distances due to natural thinning (Perry et al., 2006).”
Vertical structure and spatial associations of dominant tree species in an old-growth temperate forest (2007, background): “Therefore, it confounds effects at large scales with effects at small scales because it is a cumulative measure and each larger scale includes the information from all smaller scales (Condit et al., 2000; Schurr et al., 2004; Wiegand and Moloney, 2004; George et al., 2006 ).”
Heterogeneity influences spatial patterns and demographics in forest stands (2008, methodology): “Due to its non-cumulative properties, g ( r ) is recommended for exploratory data analysis to identify specific scales of deviation from a null model (Wiegand & Moloney 2004; Perry et al . 2006; Illian et al . 2008).”
Correct testing of mark independence for marked point patterns (2011, background): “A wide range of summary statistics are available to analyze and characterize spatial point patterns (see, e.g., Dale et al., 2002; Perry et al., 2006).”
An area-based nonparametric spatial point pattern test: The test, its applications, and the future (2016, background): “However, the analysis of spatial point patterns is of interest to a number of disciplines including criminology (Ratcliffe, 2005), ecology (Perry et al., 2006), and epidemiology (Elliott et al., 2000).”
Ecological information from spatial patterns of plants: insights from point process theory (2009, methodology): “2000; Waagepetersen 2007) and are being applied in plant ecology (Couteron et al. 2003; Shimatani & Kubota 2004; Perry et al. 2006; Wiegand et al. 2007a).”
Analysis of long-term dynamics of crowns of sessile oaks at the stand level by means of spatial statistics (2008, methodology): “The latter may make the comparison of Clark and Evans indexes difficult when they are computed from point patterns of different densities (Perry et al., 2006).”