Additive diversity partitioning as a guide to regional montane reserve design in Asia: An example from Yunnan Province, China

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1022-1033

  Wu, Fei ^a,b   Yang, Xiao Jun ^a   Yang, Jun Xing ^a  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Additive partitioning; Beta diversity; Bird diversity; Conservation planning; Montane region; Regional reserve design; Spatial and temporal dimensions

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BREEDING SEASON; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ELEVATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; NATURE RESERVE; NICHE PARTITIONING; REGIONAL PLANNING; RESERVE DESIGN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AILAO MOUNTAINS; CHINA; YUNNAN;

AVES;

EID: 77958547036     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00710.x     Document Type: Article

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