Species-area curves indicate the importance of habitats' contributions to regional biodiversity

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 387-395

  Chong, Geneva W ^a,c   Stohlgren, Thomas J ^b,c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitat; Heterogeneity; Jaccard's coefficients; Plant diversity; Species area curves

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ECOSYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; VEGETATION;

HETEROGENEITY; JACCARD'S COEFFICIENTS; PLANT DIVERSITY; SPECIES AREA CURVES;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HABITAT; HETEROGENEITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SIMILARITY INDEX; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; VEGETATION TYPE;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846563354     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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