Species diversity patterns derived from species-area models

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1185-1198

  He, Fangliang ^a,b   Legendre, Pierre ^c  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abundance; Aggregation; Community ecology; Dominance; Evenness; Random placement; Scale; Spatial distribution; Species diversity; Species richness; Species abundance model; Species area

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DOMINANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0037633167     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[1185:sdpdfs]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Review

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