The alpha-beta-regional relationship: Providing new insights into local-regional patterns of species richness and scale dependence of diversity components

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 433-444

  Gering, Jon C ^a,b   Crist, Thomas O ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive partition; Beetle; Diversity components; Ecoregion; Local regional richness; Scale dependence; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOREGION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

COLEOPTERA;

EID: 0036111183     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00335.x     Document Type: Article

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