A new statistical approach for assessing similarity of species composition with incidence and abundance data

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 148-159

  Chao, Anne ^a   Chazdon, Robin L ^b   Shen, Tsung Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance data; Beta diversity; Biodiversity; Complementarity; Incidence data; Shared species; Similarity estimators; Similarity index; Species overlap; Succession

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; SIMILARITY INDEX; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 13544268567     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00707.x     Document Type: Article

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