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  1. Department of Natural Resources Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003-5810, USA

    Kevin McGarigal

  2. Department of Forest Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1470, USA

    Susan Stafford

  3. Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003-5810, USA

    Sam Cushman

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McGarigal, K., Stafford, S., Cushman, S. (2000). Cluster Analysis. In: Multivariate Statistics for Wildlife and Ecology Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1288-1_3

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