Diversity, productivity and scale in Wisconsin vegetation

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1097-1117

  Scheiner, Samuel M ^a,b   Jones, Sharon ^b  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WEST   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Mean similarity; Productivity; Scale; Species richness; Terrestrial vascular plants; Wisconsin

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037991652     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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