Turnover of plants on small islets of the eastern Aegean Sea within two decades

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1049-1061

  Panitsa, Maria ^b   Tzanoudakis, Dimitrios ^a   Sfenthourakis, Spyros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean; Co occurrence; Community dynamics; Extinction; Greece; Immigrants; Island biogeography; Nestedness; Species richness; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

COLONY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EXTINCTION; GRAZING; IMMIGRANT; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; NESTEDNESS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEABIRD; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 43449125290     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01846.x     Document Type: Article

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