Multiple site dissimilarity quantifies compositional heterogeneity among several sites, while average pairwise dissimilarity may be misleading

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 124-128

  Baselga, Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AMPHIBIAN; COEXISTENCE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; NESTEDNESS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TURNOVER;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 84874970811     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.00124.x     Document Type: Article

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