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The discipline of terrestrial animal ecology has developed somewhat differently from other branches of ecology (e.g., plant ecology, marine ecology) and concerns itself with somewhat different questions. At the outset, it is useful to consider these differences briefly because they may color the ways in which we view the promise of new numerical techniques.
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Simberloff, D. et al. (1987). Novel Statistical Analyses in Terrestrial Animal Ecology; Dirty Data and Clean Questions. In: Legendre, P., Legendre, L. (eds) Develoments in Numerical Ecology. NATO ASI Series, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70880-0_18
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