FN Archimer Export Format
PT J
TI Application of Moran Eigenvector Maps (MEM) to irregular sampling designs
BT 
AF BRIND'AMOUR, Anik
   MAHEVAS, Stephanie
   LEGENDRE, Pierre
   BELLANGER, Lise
AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;4:3;
FF 1:PDG-RBE-EMH;2:PDG-RBE-EMH;3:;4:;
C1 IFREMER, Unite Ecol & Modeles Halieut, Rue Ile dYeu,BP 21105, F-44311 Nantes 03, France.
   Univ Montreal, Dept Sci Biol, CP 6128,Succursale Ctr Ville, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada.
   Univ Nantes, UMR CNRS 6629, Lab Math Jean Leray, Nantes, France.
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   UNIV MONTREAL, CANADA
   UNIV NANTES, FRANCE
SI NANTES
SE PDG-RBE-EMH
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
   copubli-univ-france
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 1.219
TC 12
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00444/55594/57224.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR NURSE
DE ;Autocorrelation;Irregular sampling;Sampling schemes;Spatial analyses;Statistical methods
AB Moran’s eigenvectors maps (MEM) are attractive mathematical objects as they are fairly simple to calculate and can be used in most studies of spatially-explicit data. There is, however, an aspect of MEM analysis that still requires some investigation: the effect of irregular sampling on their modeling performance. This study investigates empirically the behavior of MEMs under different irregularity schemes. It is focusing on simulated scenarios representing sampling designs frequently encountered in ecology. We advocate that MEMs can be computed and correctly used with data coming from irregularly designed sampling surveys, given some precautions. We suggest that when the sampling sites are equally spaced but do not cover the entire study area, the MEMs can be computed directly on the coordinates of the sampling sites without any important loss of information. Whereas, when the phenomenon of interest is tackled using randomly stratified sampling designs, the MEMs should be computed on a reconstructed space of regular sampling sites followed by removal of the missing sites, before analysis. This solution of rebuilding a (regular) sampling space guarantees to capture the underlying process under study, improves the modeling results and relaxes the impact of the choice of the weighting matrix on the computation of MEMs. 
PY 2018
PD AUG
SO Spatial Statistics
SN 2211-6753
PU Elsevier Sci Ltd
VL 26
UT 000442548600004
BP 56
EP 68
DI 10.1016/j.spasta.2018.05.004
ID 55594
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