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Advances in Microbial Ecology pp 1–48Cite as

Principal-Components and Factor Analysis for the Description of Microbial Populations

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Part of the book series: Advances in Microbial Ecology ((AMIE,volume 2))

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The ecosystem ecologist and the population ecologist often set out to describe the structure and function of an ecosystem or of a population. The biotic structure is given by a description of the species present and their abundance, while the function of the biotic component of the ecosystem calls for a fairly detailed analysis of the role of individual populations (species or functional groups) in, for example, energy flow or nutrient cycling.

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    T. Rosswall

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    E. Kvillner

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    M. Alexander

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Rosswall, T., Kvillner, E. (1978). Principal-Components and Factor Analysis for the Description of Microbial Populations. In: Alexander, M. (eds) Advances in Microbial Ecology. Advances in Microbial Ecology, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8222-9_1

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