Regressions of local on regional diversity do not reflect the importance of local interactions or saturation of local diversity

Oikos

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 195-198

  Hillebrand, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 20444416766     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.14008.x     Document Type: Review

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