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Computer assisted tabular sorting of phytosociological data

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This paper reports an implementation, on a computer, of tabular sorting in the traditional manner. A description is given of the use and usefulness of the program, and an account of its performance with two sets of data is presented. The paper concludes with a comparison of numerical and traditional approaches and an introduction to a new approach for computer assisted organisation of ecological data (COED).

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Lo scopo di questo articolo monografico è quello di presentare un' applicazione del metodo tradizionale di classificazione ad un computer. In esso vi è descritto l'operazione e l'uso del programma, accompagnato da risultati ottenuti usando due serie di dati ecologici. I'articolo conclude facendo un confronto fra i metodi numerici e il metodo tradizionale ed, in fine, un'introduzione ad un nuovo metodo per la classificazione di dati ecologici con l'assistenza di computers. (Computer-assisted Organisation of Ecological Data).

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  1. M. B. Dale

    Present address: Ecology Division, Grassland Research Institute, Hurley, Maidenhead, Berks, U.K.

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Dale, M.B., Quadraccia, L. Computer assisted tabular sorting of phytosociological data. Plant Ecol 28, 57–73 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02386214

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