Inventory, differentiation, and proportional diversity: A consistent terminology for quantifying species diversity

Oecologia

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-26

  Jurasinski, Gerald ^a   Retzer, Vroni ^b   Beierkuhnlein, Carl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Additive partitioning; Alpha diversity; Beta diversity; Compositional similarity; Gamma diversity

Indexed keywords

SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TERMINOLOGY;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NOMENCLATURE; REVIEW;

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 58549098885     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1190-z     Document Type: Review

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