Additive partitioning of rarefaction curves and species-area relationships: Unifying α-, β- and γ-diversity with sample size and habitat area

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 923-932

  Crist, Thomas O ^a   Veech, Joseph A ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical design; Local and regional diversity; Nested sampling; Null hypothesis; Spatial scale; Species richness; Temporal scale

Indexed keywords

HABITAT AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 33746673919     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00941.x     Document Type: Review

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