From plots to islands: Species diversity at different scales

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 750-759

  Sfenthourakis, Spyros ^a   Panitsa, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean islands; Alpha diversity; Beta diversity; Diversity partitioning; Plants; Species accumulation curves; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; GREECE;

EID: 84858701119     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02639.x     Document Type: Article

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