Modeling the sampling effect in the species-time-area relationship

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 836-846

  McGlinn, Daniel J ^a   Palmer, Michael W ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Grassland; Rarefaction effect; Sampling effect; Scale dependence; Scaling; Species richness; Species turnover; Species time area relationship (STAR)

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPLEXITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PRAIRIE; SAMPLING; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES POOL; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TURNOVER;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; TIME;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 64149123219     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0377.1     Document Type: Article

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