Nested patterns of species composition and their implications for lemur biogeography in Madagscar

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 69, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages 332-341

  Ganzhorn, Jörg U ^a,b  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Lemur communities; Madagascar; Nested subsets; Neutral models; Species composition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001643009     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000052722     Document Type: Review

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