Combining α- and β-diversity models to fill gaps in our knowledge of biodiversity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1043-1051

  Mokany, Karel ^a   Harwood, Thomas D ^a   Overton, Jacob McC ^b   Barker, Gary M ^b   Ferrier, Simon ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alpha; Beta; Community; Dissimilarity; Diversity; Gamma; Macroecology; Metacommunity; Richness; Snail

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MACROECOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SNAIL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVEY; TAXONOMY; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SNAIL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SNAILS;

NEW ZEALAND;

GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 80052800532     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01675.x     Document Type: Article

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