Quality of basic data and method to identify shape affect richness-altitude relationships in meta-analysis

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 253-260

  Werenkraut, Victoria ^a   Ruggiero, Adriana ^a  

^a LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Elevation gradient; Hump shaped pattern; Meta analysis; Monotonic decreasing pattern; Sampling design; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTHROPOD; DATA SET; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; META-ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PHYSIOLOGY;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC;

ARTHROPODA;

EID: 79955532653     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2405.1     Document Type: Article

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