How does habitat diversity affect the species-area relationship?

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 532-538

  Kallimanis, Athanasios S ^a,b   Mazaris, Antonis D ^a   Tzanopoulos, Joseph ^a   Halley, John M ^b   Pantis, John D ^a   Sgardelis, Stefanos P ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Habitat diversity; Habitat heterogeneity; Natura 2000; Scale dependency; Species richness; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

HABITAT TYPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT; PROTECTED AREA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 44949104089     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00393.x     Document Type: Article

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