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A method is proposed to analyse the dispersion profiles of species in classes of environmental variables, based on the decomposition of the expected frequencies in contingency tables with many interacting species. The method has been applied to data of dominant or very frequent graminoid species in grasslands of the Natisone Valley (Friuli, Italy). It allowed to make predictions by removing the random component of variation.
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Nomenclature follows: P. Zangheri (1976). Flora Italica, CEDAM, Padua.
The authors were recipients of an Italian CNR grant (E. Feoli) and a Canadian NSERC grant (L. Orlóci) during tenure of this project. The results are in partial fulfillment of a commitment to the ‘Centro Regionale per la Sperimentazione Agraria per il Friuli-Venezia Giulia’.
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Feoli, E., Orlóci, L. Species dispersion profiles of anthropogenic grasslands in the Italian Eastern Pre-Alps. Vegetatio 60, 113–118 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00039926
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