On beta diversity decomposition: Trouble shared is not trouble halved

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1981-1983

  Ricotta, Carlo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DECOMPOSITION; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

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

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

EID: 77954617717     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0126.1     Document Type: Article

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