Beta diversity metrics and the estimation of niche width via species co-occurrence data: Reply to Zeleny

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-22

  Manthey, Michael ^a   Fridley, Jason D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive partitioning; Beta diversity; Ecoinformatics; Jaccard similarity; Multiple site similarity; Niche breadth estimation; Whittaker's beta

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649120856     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01450.x     Document Type: Note

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