Beta diversity and taxonomic sufficiency: Do higher-level taxa reflect heterogeneity in species composition?

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 450-458

  Terlizzi, Antonio ^a   Anderson, Marti J ^b   Bevilacqua, Stanislao ^a   Fraschetti, Simonetta ^a   Włodarska Kowalczuk, Maria ^c   Ellingsen, Kari E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

diversity; Biodiversity; Marine molluscs; Multivariate dispersion; Taxonomic surrogates

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA SET; DISPERSION; DIVERSITY INDEX; HETEROGENEITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MOLLUSC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ARCTIC; AUSTRALASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; NEW ZEALAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 64649104179     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00551.x     Document Type: Article

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