Betapart: An R package for the study of beta diversity

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 808-812

  Baselga, Andrés ^a   Orme, C David L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b Division of Biology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dissimilarity; Distance matrices; Multiple site dissimilarity; Nestedness; Temporal change; Turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874199777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00224.x     Document Type: Article

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