The botanist effect revisited: Plant species richness, county area, and human population size in the United States

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1333-1340

  Pautasso, Marco ^a   McKinney, Michael L ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Density area relationship; Habitat heterogeneity; Macroecology; Native and exotic plants; North American flora; Sampling effort; Species area relationship; Species energy relationship; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BOTANY; MACROECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; VASCULAR PLANT;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BOTANY; HUMAN; PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; BOTANY; HUMANS; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EMBRYOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 34748902804     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00760.x     Document Type: Article

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