Geographical sampling bias in a large distributional database and its effects on species richness-environment models

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1415-1426

  Yang, Wenjing ^a,b,c   Ma, Keping ^a   Kreft, Holger ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Biodiversity patterns; Chao1; China; Inventory incompleteness; Richness environment relationship; Sampling effort; Species accumulation curve; Species richness prediction; Vascular plants; Wallacean shortfall

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LITERATURE REVIEW; PLANT COMMUNITY; PREDICTION; SAMPLING BIAS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; VASCULAR PLANT;

CHINA;

EID: 84880404813     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12108     Document Type: Article

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