The effects of landscape variables on the species-area relationship during late-stage habitat fragmentation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Hu, Guang ^a   Wu, Jianguo ^b,c   Feeley, Kenneth J ^d,e   Xu, Gaofu ^f   Yu, Mingjian ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Center for Tropical Plant Conservation   (United States)

^f Xin'an River Development Corporation   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GROWING SEASON; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT PATCHINESS; HABITAT QUALITY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES AREA RELATIONSHIP; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CHINA; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84865282690     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043894     Document Type: Article

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