Six types of species-area curves

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 441-447

  Scheiner, Samuel M ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation diversity; Extent; Focus; Grain; Inventory diversity; Macroecology; Scale; Species area curve

Indexed keywords

MACROECOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; SAMPLING; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; CEREAL; DIFFERENTIATION; NESTEDNESS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0242626740     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822X.2003.00061.x     Document Type: Article

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