From sampling stations to archipelagos: Investigating aspects of the assemblage of insular biota

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-35

  Sfenthourakis, Spyros ^a   Giokas, Sinos ^b   Tzanatos, Evangelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean Islands; Greece; Insular biota; Nestedness; Spatial scale; Species co occurrence; Temperature Calculator; Terrestrial isopods

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; COEXISTENCE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NESTEDNESS; SCALE EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTA; ISOPOD; SAMPLING; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; ISOPODA;

EID: 1942467095     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-882X.2004.00065.x     Document Type: Article

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