Multiplicative partition of true diversity yields independent alpha and beta components; additive partition does not

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1974-1981

  Baselga, Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 77954581990     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0320.1     Document Type: Article

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