Estimating and conserving patterns of invertebrate diversity: A test case of New Zealand land snails

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 731-741

  Overton, Jacob McC ^a   Barker, Gary M ^a   Price, Robbie ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Conservation planning; Gamma diversity; Generalized dissimilarity modelling; Land snails; Species richness; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PROTECTED AREA; REFUGIUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNAIL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 69249149993     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2009.00589.x     Document Type: Article

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