Scale-dependent effect sizes of ecological drivers on biodiversity: Why standardised sampling is not enough

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages 17-26

  Chase, Jonathan M ^a   Knight, Tiffany M ^b  

^a Biodiversity Synthesis Laboratory   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Effect size; Intraspecific aggregation; Probability of interspecific encounter; Rarefaction; Species abundance distribution; Species accumulation curve

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; META-ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RARE SPECIES; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SAMPLING; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES POOL; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 84877908033     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12112     Document Type: Article

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