The relationship between local and regional diversity

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 70-80

  Caley, M Julian ^a   Schluter, Dolph ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community saturation; Community structure; Local and regional; Log normal distribution; Sampling methodology; Spatial scale; Species abundance; Species diversity; Species richness; Species richness among taxa; Species richness between continents

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES SATURATION;

EID: 0030848094     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[0070:TRBLAR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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