Separating the two components of abundance-based dissimilarity: Balanced changes in abundance vs. abundance gradients

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 552-557

  Baselga, Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abundance; Beta diversity; Bray Curtis; Distance decay; Replacement; Subset; Turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878740327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12029     Document Type: Article

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