Beyond taxonomic diversity patterns: How do α, β and γ components of bird functional and phylogenetic diversity respond to environmental gradients across France?

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 893-903

  Meynard, Christine N ^a,b   Devictor, Vincent ^a   Mouillot, David ^c   Thuiller, Wilfried ^d   Jiguet, Frédéric ^e   Mouquet, Nicolas ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Alpha diversity; Beta diversity; Bird communities; Dispersal; Environmental filtering; France; Gamma diversity; Metacommunities; Rao; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BIRD; BREEDING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; MACROECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

FRANCE;

AVES;

EID: 80053623201     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00647.x     Document Type: Article

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