Scale dependency in the species-area relationship of plant communities

Folia Geobotanica

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 305-318

  Dolnik, Christian ^a   Breuer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Power function; Relev ; SAR; Species richness; Species area intersect; Standard area scale

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY INDEX; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; GRASSLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; RANKING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 58849101675     PISSN: 12119520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12224-008-9019-4     Document Type: Article

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