The power of time: Spatiotemporal scaling of species diversity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 749-756

  Adler, Peter B ^a   Lauenroth, William K ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community turnover; Species richness; Species area relationship; Species time relationship

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; NATURE CONSERVATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TIMESCALE;

EID: 0042128300     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00497.x     Document Type: Article

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