Correlation between richness per unit area and the species pool cannot be used to demonstrate the species pool effect

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 123-126

  Herben, Tomáš ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Functional relationship; Inference; Local scale; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0034143667     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3236783     Document Type: Article

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