Disentangling sampling and ecological explanations underlying species-area relationships

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1118-1130

  Cam, Emmanuelle ^a,b,d   Nichols, James D ^b   Hines, James E ^b   Sauer, John R ^b   Alpizar Jara, Russell ^b   Flather, Curtis H ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Habitat diversity; Nested species area relationships; Sampling artifacts; Species detection probability

Indexed keywords

HABITAT; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 0037630010     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[1118:DSAEEU]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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