Partitioning variation in ecological communities: Do the numbers add up?

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1071-1082

  Gilbert, Benjamin ^a   Bennett, Joseph R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Canonical ordination; Moran's eigenvector maps; Principal coordinates of neighbour matrices; Redundancy analysis; Regression on distance matrices; Spatial variation; Trend surface analysis; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EIGENVALUE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; NICHE PARTITIONING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 77956114525     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01861.x     Document Type: Article

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