Diversity partitioning confirms the importance of beta components in tropical rainforest Lepidoptera

American Naturalist

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Beck, Jan ^a   Holloway, Jeremy D ^b   Khen, Chey Vun ^c   Kitching, Ian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c Forest Research Centre of Sabah   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Borneo; Herbivorous insects; Hierarchical partitioning; Lepidoptera; Malesia; Null model; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DIVERSITY INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; HERBIVORE; HERBIVORY; INSECT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BORNEO; MALAYSIA; MOTH; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BORNEO; MALAYSIA; MOTHS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

SOUTHEAST ASIA;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 84864705103     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/666982     Document Type: Article

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