Geometry and scale in species-area relationships

Nature

Volumn 482, Issue 7386, 2012, Pages

  Pereira, Henrique Miguel ^a   Borda De Água, Luís ^a   Martins, Inês Santos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXTINCTION; GEOMETRY; HABITAT LOSS; SAMPLING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENDEMIC AREA RELATIONSHIP; GEOMETRY; HABITAT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES AREA RELATIONSHIP; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84857397885     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10857     Document Type: Short Survey

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