Predicting spatial similarity of freshwater fish biodiversity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 7058-7062

  Azaele, Sandro ^a,d   Muneepeerakul, Rachata ^a   Maritan, Amos ^b   Rinaldo, Andrea ^b,c   Rodriguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Average annual runoff production; Jaccard index; Macroecology; Mississippi Missouri basin; River networks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; FRESHWATER FISH; IMMIGRATION; MIGRATION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; STATISTICS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FISH; PHYSIOLOGY;

FRESH WATER;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FISHES; FRESH WATER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 66349113195     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805845106     Document Type: Article

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