Do plant communities exist? Evidence from scaling-up local species-area relations to the regional level

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 773-775

  Wilson, J Bastow ^a   Chiarucci, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Discrete community; Self similarity; Species pool

Indexed keywords

PLANT COMMUNITY; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0034508741     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3236582     Document Type: Article

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