The partitioning of diversity: Showing Theseus a way out of the labyrinth

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 992-1000

  De Bello, Francesco ^a   Lavergne, Sébastien ^a   Meynard, Christine N ^b   Lepš, Jan ^c   Thuiller, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Biodiversity turnover; Biogeography; Community assembly; Functional diversity; Phylogenetic diversity; Simpson index

Indexed keywords

DIVERSITY INDEX; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; LITERATURE REVIEW; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

EID: 77956309161     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2010.01195.x     Document Type: Article

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