Subsampling herbarium collections to assess geographic diversity gradients: A case study with endemic Orchidaceae and Rubiaceae in Cameroon

Biotropica

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-52

  Droissart, Vincent ^a,b   Hardy, Olivier J ^a   Sonké, Bonaventure ^a,c,e   Dahdouh Guebas, Farid ^a,d   Stévart, Tariq ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UMR AMAP   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^e MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^f BOTANIC GARDEN MEISE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

BiodivR; Central Africa; Diversity patterns; Effective number of species; Herbarium collections; Rarefaction principles; Similarity index; Subsampling procedure

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; COFFEE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HERBARIUM; HETEROGENEITY; MONOCOTYLEDON; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ATLANTIC COAST [AFRICA]; CAMEROON;

ORCHIDACEAE; RUBIACEAE;

EID: 84855749736     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2011.00777.x     Document Type: Article

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