Testing the correlation between beta diversity and differences in productivity among global ecoregions, biomes, and biogeographical realms

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 93-98

  He, Kate ^a   Zhang, Jianting ^b  

^a MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b City University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Biogeographical; Evolutionary history; Mantel test; MODIS NDVI; Multivariate distance; WWF ecoregion

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOME; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOREGION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; KINSHIP; MODIS; NDVI; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 67349103360     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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