Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) on Mythryl: “A study testing back-transformation methods for the Braun-Blanquet…”

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS)

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A study testing back-transformation methods for the Braun-Blanquet cover scale finds that TURBOVEG's default approach consistently and substantially inflates diversity metrics like Shannon and Simpson indices. Read the full study: doi.org/10.3897/VCS....

doi.orgTranslation of the Braun-Blanquet scale to percent in TURBOVEG can bias diversity metricsBackground: The majority of vegetation plots has been and still is being recorded on ordinal scales, meaning that the values have to be back-transformed to percent for many typical analyses. Little is...

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