Use of Classification Trees to Investigate Traits of Invasive Species

September 20, 2011
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Which traits make an alien species invasive?
Due to what traits an alien species becomes established in a foreign flora?



This kind of questions could be analysed by the use of recursive partitioning and classification trees..
(the below example also includes some useful data manipulation techniques)...

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