Co-occurrence based assessment of habitat generalists and specialists: A new approach for the measurement of niche width

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 707-722

  Fridley, Jason D ^a,c   Vandermast, David B ^b,c   Kuppinger, Dane M ^c   Manthey, Michael ^d   Peet, Robert K ^c,d  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ELON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Additive partitioning; Beta diversity; Ecoinformatics; Habitat diversity; Habitat selection; Joyce Kilmer Slickrock Wilderness; Niche breadth; South east U.S.A.; Southern Appalachians; Woody flora

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GENERALIST; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; HABITAT SELECTION; NICHE BREADTH; SPECIALIST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; WOODY PLANT;

APPALACHIANS; JOYCE KILMER-SLICKROCK WILDERNESS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; ABIES FRASERI; ACER; ACER RUBRUM; AVES; ILEX; ILEX OPACA; MORUS (PLANT); MORUS RUBRA; PINUS PALUSTRIS; PINUS PUNGENS; PRUNUS; PRUNUS SEROTINA; QUERCUS LAEVIS; TAXODIUM; ULMUS; ULMUS RUBRA;

EID: 34250617561     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01236.x     Document Type: Article

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