Plant Species Coalition Groups of Zion National Park: An Individualistic, Floristic Alternative to Vegetation Classification

Niches and guilds of bryophytes along a 3000-meter elevational gradient

“…Thus, recognizing bryophyte elevation zones would be uncomfortably forced. The coalitions of RCLUS were better than vegetation types because RCLUS allows species to be individualistic (Ott et al 2015). The boundaries of the various species do not have to be coincident cartographically.…”

“…Coalitions based on co-occurrence at the plot level. For the Kaweah data set, RCLUS was used to search for coalitions of species (Ott et al 2015;Sanderson et al 2006). It is written as a macro in Excel 1 .…”