Island, archipelago and taxon effects: Mixed models as a means of dealing with the imperfect design of nature's experiments

Ecography

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-22

  Bunnefeld, Nils ^a   Phillimore, Albert B ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; DATA SET; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; LINEARITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

AZORES; CANARY ISLANDS; ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; PORTUGAL; SPAIN;

EID: 84855558907     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.07078.x     Document Type: Article

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