Species turnover at small scales in dune slack plant communities

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 321-329

  Bossuyt, Beatrijs ^a   Hermy, Martin ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fractal distribution; Plot shape; Scale area plot; Self similarity; Spatial aggregation; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644266253     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2004.05.002     Document Type: Article

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