Species richness, species-area curves and Simpson's paradox

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 791-802

  Scheiner, Samuel M ^a,f   Cox, Stephen B ^b   Willig, Michael ^b   Mittelbach, Gary G ^c   Osenberg, Craig ^d   Kaspari, Michael ^e  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WEST   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^f NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Combining data; Productivity; Scale; Species diversity; Species richness; Species area curve

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000805546     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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