Application of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in Taxonomy Research to Derive Plant Functional Types for Use in Dynamics Models

• Main Authors: Yasmin Yahya, Roslan Ismail, (UniKL MIIT)
• Published: ACM 2015
• Subjects: Principal component analysis (PCA); cluster analysis (CA); diversity; classification
• Online Access: http://localhost/xmlui/handle/123456789/9717

Forest management is essential for maintaining environmental stability and ecological biodiversity. The high species diversity of tropical rainforest forests obstructs the development of forest dynamic models. A lot of tree species exist in the forest for which each type of species will have insuffi...