Estimating landscape-scale species richness: Reconciling frequency- and turnover-based approaches

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 174-182

  Jobe, R Todd ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Distance decay of similarity; Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA; Species richness estimation

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NATIVE SPECIES; SIZE EFFECT; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PLANT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREES;

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40449089344     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1722.1     Document Type: Article

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