Regularity of species richness relationships to patch size and shape

Ecography

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 589-597

  Heegaard, Einar ^a   Økland, Rune H ^b   Bratli, Harald ^c   Dramstad, Wenche E ^c   Engan, Gunnar ^c   Pedersen, Oddvar ^b   Solstad, Heidi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPLEXITY; DISPERSAL; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATCH DYNAMICS; PATCH SIZE;

EID: 34547908147     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2007.0906-7590.04989.x     Document Type: Article

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