Large-scale energetic and landscape factors of vegetation diversity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1004-1016

  Venevsky, Sergey ^a   Veneskaia, Irina ^b,c  

^a OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy equivalence rule; fractal dimension of landscape; Scaling of vegetation diversity; Species number of vascular plants

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION; LANDSCAPE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VASCULAR PLANT;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0242406790     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00527.x     Document Type: Article

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