Commentary: Do we have a consistent terminology for species diversity? Back to basics and toward a unifying framework

Oecologia

Volumn 167, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 889-892

  Moreno, Claudia E ^a   Rodríguez, Pilar ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^b Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

Alpha diversity; Beta diversity; Gamma diversity; Species richness; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DECADAL VARIATION; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TERMINOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; NOMENCLATURE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 80855132630     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2125-7     Document Type: Article

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