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Author Picard, N.; Mortier, F.; Rossi, V.; Gourlet-Fleury, S. openurl 
  Title Clustering species using a model of population dynamics and aggregation theory Type Journal Article
  Year 2010 Publication Ecological Modelling Abbreviated Journal Ecol. Model.  
  Volume 221 Issue 2 Pages 152-160  
  Keywords Aggregation theory; Species grouping; Species richness; Tropical rainforest; Usher model  
  Abstract The high species diversity of some ecosystems like tropical rainforests goes in pair with the scarcity of data for most species. This hinders the development of models that require enough data for fitting. The solution commonly adopted by modellers consists in grouping species to form more sizeable data sets. Classical methods for grouping species such as hierarchical cluster analysis do not take account of the variability of the species characteristics used for clustering. In this study a clustering method based on aggregation theory is presented. It takes account of the variability of species characteristics by searching for the grouping that minimizes the quadratic error (square bias plus variance) of some model's prediction. This method allows one to check whether the gain in variance brought by data pooling compensate for the bias that it introduces. This method was applied to a data set on 94 tree species in a tropical rainforest in French Guiana, using a Usher matrix model to predict species dynamics. An optimal trade-off between bias and variance was found when grouping species. Grouping species appeared to decrease the quadratic error, except when the number of groups was very small. This clustering method yielded species groups similar to those of the hierarchical cluster analysis using Ward's method when variance was small, that is when the number of groups was small. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.  
  Address [Picard, Nicolas; Mortier, Frederic; Rossi, Vivien; Gourlet-Fleury, Sylvie] CIRAD, F-34398 Montpellier 5, France, Email: nicolas.picard@cirad.fr  
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  Publisher ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV Place of Publication Editor  
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  ISSN 0304-3800 ISBN (up) Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes ISI:000273628800004 Approved no  
  Call Number EcoFoG @ eric.marcon @ Serial 85  
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