Species-area models to assess biodiversity change in multi-habitat landscapes: The importance of species habitat affinity

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 102-114

  Proença, Vânia ^a,b   Pereira, Henrique Miguel ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Extinction; Land use change; Plant diversity; Scenarios; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875386459     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2012.10.010     Document Type: Article

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