Are the living collections of the world's botanical gardens following species-richness patterns observed in natural ecosystems?

Botanica Helvetica

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 15-28

  Pautasso, Marco ^a,b   Parmentier, Ingrid ^c,d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ex situ conservation; Global priorities; Metapopulation network; Scale; Spatial autocorrelation; Species energy

Indexed keywords

DATA MANAGEMENT; DEVELOPING WORLD; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 34547101218     PISSN: 02531453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00035-007-0786-y     Document Type: Article

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