Components of spatial patterning in a serpentine grassland

Ecological Research

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 405-421

  Overton, Jacob McC ^a   Levin, Simon A ^b  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Environmental heterogeneity; Gopher; Nested spatial sampling; Pattern; Scale; Semivariance; Serpentine grassland; Soil depth; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; GRASSLAND; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES CONCEPT;

EID: 0042476374     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1703.2003.00565.x     Document Type: Article

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