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Spatial Analysis of Ecological Data

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Species data are inherently spatially distributed due to species spatial dependence, species spatial pattern due to species dependency on environmental conditions that are spatially structured, and species spatial autocorrelation due to species interactions and dispersal limitations (Wagner and Fortin 2005; Dale and Fortin 2014).

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  1. Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Marie-Josée Fortin

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  1. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Shashi Shekhar

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA

    Hui Xiong

  3. Department of Management Sciences, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Xun Zhou

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Fortin, MJ. (2017). Spatial Analysis of Ecological Data. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_1640

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