Null model analysis of species nestedness patterns

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1824-1831

  Ulrich, Werner ^a   Gotelli, Nicholas J ^b  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Matrix temperature; Nestedness; Nestedness temperature calculator; Null model; Passive sampling; Presence absence matrix; Statistical test

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL METHOD; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DETECTION METHOD; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; NESTEDNESS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVALUATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 34548414185     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1208.1     Document Type: Article

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