Estimating metacommunity extent using data on species abundances, environmental variation, and phylogenetic relationships across geographic space

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages 114-122

  Maurer, Brian A ^a   Kembel, Steven W ^b   Rominger, Andrew J ^c   McGill, Brian J ^d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biogeography; Macroecology; Metacommunity; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; IMMIGRATION; MACROECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

NORTH AMERICA;

AVES;

EID: 84871791327     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2012.06.003     Document Type: Article

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