Floristic variation, chorological types and diversity: Do they correspond at broad and local scales?

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 221-235

  Ferrer Castán, Dolores ^a   Vetaas, Ole R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Canonical correspondence analysis; Mediterranean; Partial ordination; Plant biogeography; Scale; Self similarity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CORRELATION; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ORDINATION;

MACARONESIA;

EID: 0038175125     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-4642.2003.00009.x     Document Type: Article

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