Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 16, No. 5 (Oct., 2005), pp. 497-510 (14 pages) Questions: Are ordinal data appropriately treated by multivariate methods in numerical ecology? If not, what are the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article investigates whether the Braun-Blanquet abundance/dominance (AD) scores that commonly appear in phytosociological tables can ...