Species compositional similarity and ecoregions: Do ecoregion boundaries represent zones of high species turnover?

Biological Conservation

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 24-40

  McDonald, Robert ^a   McKnight, Meghan ^b   Weiss, Dan ^c   Selig, Elizabeth ^b   O'Connor, Mary ^b   Violin, Christy ^b   Moody, Aaron ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Distance decay; Jaccard's similarity index; Ranges; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOREGION; SIMILARITY INDEX; TURNOVER;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 22144480642     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.05.008     Document Type: Article

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