Primary productivity and species richness: Relationships among functional guilds, residency groups and vagility classes at multiple spatial scales

Ecography

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 207-217

  Bailey, S A ^a   Horner Devine, M C ^b   Luck, G ^c   Moore, L A ^b   Carney, K M ^b   Anderson, S ^b   Betrus, C ^d   Fleishman, E ^b  

^a FORESTRY COMMISSION   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BUTTERFLY; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HETEROGENEITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AVES; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 11144322554     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2004.03631.x     Document Type: Article

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