The relationship between species replacement, dissimilarity derived from nestedness, and nestedness

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1223-1232

  Baselga, Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Dissimilarity; Nestedness; Richness differences; Spatial turnover; Species replacement

Indexed keywords

NESTEDNESS; REPLACEMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 84857566449     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00756.x     Document Type: Article

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