Quantifying temporal change in biodiversity: Challenges and opportunities

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1750, 2013, Pages

  Dornelas, Maria ^a,b   Magurran, Anne E ^a   Buckland, Stephen T ^a   Chao, Anne ^c   Chazdon, Robin L ^d   Colwell, Robert K ^d   Curtis, Tom ^e   Gaston, Kevin J ^f   Gotelli, Nicholas J ^g   Kosnik, Matthew A ^h   McGill, Brian ⁱ   McCune, Jenny L ^j   Morlon, Hélène ^k   Mumby, Peter J ^l   Øvreås, Lise ^m   Studeny, Angelika ^a,n   Vellend, Mark ^o  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^h MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^k CENTRE DE MATHÉMATIQUES APPLIQUÉES   (France)

^l UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^m UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

ⁿ INRIA RHÔNE ALPES   (France)

^o UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

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Author keywords

Biological diversity; Conservation; Global change; Legacy data; Time; Traits

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; HABITAT LOSS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84869843025     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1931     Document Type: Review

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