Multi-scale environmental heterogeneity as a predictor of plant species richness

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 851-864

  Costanza, Jennifer K ^a,b   Moody, Aaron ^a,c   Peet, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Elevation; Land cover; Longleaf pine communities; Soil nutrient availability; Spatial heterogeneity hypothesis; Spectral variation hypothesis; Vegetation productivity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONIFEROUS TREE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GIS; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PH; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL NUTRIENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

NORTH CAROLINA; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

PINUS PALUSTRIS;

EID: 79958265354     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9613-3     Document Type: Article

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