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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: formalism for characterizing vegetation responses using classification trees and Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence
  name:
    name part: Rodriguez Iglesias, Ricardo Manuel
    name part: 1955-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1996
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 151 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: Predictive models of vegetation change are urgently needed
  abstract: for range management and conservation purposes. Traditional
  abstract: approaches based on climax equilibrium theory do not fit
  abstract: observed dynamics of important types of grasslands and
  abstract: shrublands. Most alternative communityand species-based
  abstract: models require sophisticated information, are only locally
  abstract: applicable or produce predictions that are not directly
  abstract: interpretable for management decisions. Infon-nation
  abstract: currently gathered in management settings is mostly ignored
  abstract: despite its potential utility for predicting species
  abstract: responses to disturbance regimes/events and management
  abstract: practices. This study merges elements of comparative and
  abstract: functional ecology in a conceptual approach to employ
  abstract: managementlevel knowledge and autecological information 'in
  abstract: the characterization of vegetation responses. A formalism is
  abstract: proposed for practical applications that includes specific
  abstract: methods for identifying response groups of species and
  abstract: criteria for establishing agreement among expert sources.
  abstract: Classification trees are used for arranging individual
  abstract: species 'into response groups according to autecological
  abstract: similarities for a set of adaptive attributes and specific
  abstract: responses obtained from expert sources. Profiles of
  abstract: attributes associated with responses to individual
  abstract: disturbance factors are then combined and most probable
  abstract: trends for response groups are generated using DempsterShafer
  abstract: mathematical theory of evidence. Predictive rules and
  abstract: attached belief intervals can be produced for every non-empty
  abstract: combination of autecological profiles previously detemiined
  abstract: for individual disturbance factors. TMs provides generality
  abstract: and portability across physiognomically similar vegetation
  abstract: types. The species profile approach also has important
  abstract: implications for the conservation of functional diversity and
  abstract: risk evaluation of invasion potential by non-native species.
  abstract: A general application of the formalism to the vegetation of
  abstract: the Edwards Plateau (Texas, USA), involving predictions for
  abstract: the effects of grazing and fire, is implemented and
  abstract: limitations and future developments required are discussed.
  note: by Ricardo Manuel Rodriguez Iglesias.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: Rangeland Ecology and Management".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilms Inc.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 1996.
  subject:
    topic: Major rangeland ecology and management
  identifier: 96-34833 UMI
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    record creation date: 970319
    record change date: 20190325093247.0
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