How to choose a biodiversity indicator - Redundancy and complementarity of biodiversity metrics in a freshwater ecosystem

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1177-1184

  Gallardo, Belinda ^a,c   Gascón, Stéphanie ^b   Quintana, Xavier ^b   Comín, Franciso A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body size diversity; Functional diversity; GAM models; Rarefied richness; Taxonomic distinctness

Indexed keywords

BODY-SIZE DIVERSITY; FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY; GAM MODELS; RAREFIED RICHNESS; TAXONOMIC DISTINCTNESS;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; RATING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TURBIDITY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMONITORING; BODY SIZE; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FLOODPLAIN; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; INVERTEBRATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALINITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TURBIDITY;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 79955819414     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.12.019     Document Type: Article

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