Co-occurrence based assessment of species habitat specialization is affected by the size of species pool: Reply to Fridley et al. (2007)

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-17

  Zelený, David ^a,b  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Additive partitioning; Beta diversity; Ellenberg indicator values; Generalists; Habitat diversity; Local regional species richness relationship; Simulation; Specialists; Theta value; Whittaker's beta

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649129083     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01394.x     Document Type: Note

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