The scale of analysis determines the spatial pattern of woody species diversity in the Mediterranean environment

Plant Ecology

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 143-151

  Kallimanis, Athanasios S ^a,b   Halley, John M ^a,b   Vokou, Despina ^a   Sgardelis, Stefanos P ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Pattern matching; Spatial autocorrelation; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BIODIVERSITY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRANSITION ZONE; TURNOVER; WOODY PLANT;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; CHALCIDICE [(DPR) CENTRAL MACEDONIA]; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MOUNT HOLOMONTAS; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 41549086170     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-007-9341-6     Document Type: Article

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