Linking biodiversity patterns by autocorrelated random sampling

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 481-502

  McGill, Brian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Local; Macroecology; Regional; Species area relationship; Species abundance distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AUTOCORRELATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MACROECOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RANGE SIZE; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GEOGRAPHY; PANAMA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIODIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PANAMA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79952766187     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1000509     Document Type: Article

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