A comparative evaluation of pairwise nestedness measures

Ecography

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 889-900

  Podani, János ^a   Schmera, Dénes ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c BALATON LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ERROR ANALYSIS; NESTEDNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84864317683     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.07319.x     Document Type: Article

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