The concept of taxon invariance in ecology: Do diversity patterns vary with changes in taxonomic resolution?

Folia Geobotanica

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 329-344

  Storch, David ^a,b   Šizling, Arnošt L ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abundances; Biogeography; Distributions; Macroecology; Phylogeny; Scaling; Species enery relationship

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; MACROECOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TAXONOMY;

EID: 58849112112     PISSN: 12119520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12224-008-9015-8     Document Type: Article

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