Spatial nonstationarity and scale-dependency in the relationship between species richness and environmental determinants for the sub-Saharan endemic avifauna

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 315-320

  Foody, Giles M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Biodiversity; Birds; Macroecology; Regression; Spatial scale; Spatial stationarity; Species richness patterns

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MACROECOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES RICHNESS; BIRD; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 3142751254     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2004.00097.x     Document Type: Article

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