Proposing a resolution to debates on diversity partitioning

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2037-2051

  Chao, Anne ^a   Chiu, Chun Huo ^a   Hsieh, T C ^a   Inouye, B D ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Additive partitioning; Alpha diversity; Beta diversity; Differentiation; Gamma diversity; Hill numbers; Multiplicative partitioning; Similarity

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; PARTITIONING; SIMILARITY INDEX; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84866894343     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1817.1     Document Type: Article

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