Spatial scale and cross-taxon congruence of terrestrial vertebrate and vascular plant species richness in China

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1172-1183

  Qian, Hong ^a   Kissling, W Daniel ^b  

^a RESEARCH AND COLLECTIONS CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity concordance; Local regional richness; Plant animal interactions; Richness correlation; Scale effects; Species energy theory; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE EFFECT; HABITAT MOSAIC; HETEROGENEITY; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; PLANT; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; PLANTS; VERTEBRATES;

CHINA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; TRACHEOPHYTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77951193559     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0620.1     Document Type: Article

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