Unraveling plant-animal diversity relationships: A meta-regression analysis

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2115-2124

  Castagneyrol, Bastien ^a   Jactel, Hervé ^b   Cardinale, B J ^c  

^a UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Animal; Biodiversity; Correlation; Meta analysis; Plant; Trophic level; Diversity; Diversity

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CORRELATION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT TYPE; MAMMAL; META-ANALYSIS; PLANT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC LEVEL; VIRUS;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84866936314     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1300.1     Document Type: Article

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