Concordance among stream assemblages and spatial autocorrelation along a fragmented gradient

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 592-603

  Grenouillet, Gaël ^a   Brosse, Sébastien ^a   Tudesque, Loïc ^a   Lek, Sovan ^a   Baraillé, Yasmina ^a   Loot, Géraldine ^a  

^a École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Fragmentation; Mantel tests; Partial Mantel tests; Spatial autocorrelation; Stream assemblage concordance

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; DIATOM; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FISH; FRAGMENTATION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAM; TAXONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 44949188387     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00443.x     Document Type: Article

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