Co-occurrence-based measure of species' habitat specialization: Robust, unbiased estimation in saturated communities

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 201-207

  Botta Dukát, Zoltán ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

diversity; Generalists; Niche width; Saturation; Simulation; Specialists; Species pool; Whittaker's

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATABASE; NICHE BREADTH; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPECIALIST; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES POOL; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 84858324640     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01347.x     Document Type: Article

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