Patterns of species richness on very small islands: The plants of the Aegean archipelago

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1223-1234

  Panitsa, Maria ^a   Tzanoudakis, Dimitrios ^b   Triantis, Kostas A ^c   Sfenthourakis, Spyros ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean archipelago; Arrhenius model; Choros model; Diversity; Habitat types; Island biogeography; Plants; Small Island Effect; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

GRAZING; HABITAT TYPE; PLANT; REGRESSION; SMALL ISLAND STATE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

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

FABACEAE; POACEAE;

EID: 33745041706     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01481.x     Document Type: Article

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