Additive partitioning of diversity including species differences: A comment on Hardy & Senterre (2007)

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 845-848

  Villéger, Sébastien ^a   Mouillot, David ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

diversity; Biodiversity pattern; Biogeography; Community structure; Functional diversity; Phylogenetic diversity; Rao's quadratic entropy

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECOMPOSITION; ENTROPY; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; NICHE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 49649096141     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01351.x     Document Type: Review

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