The importance of heterogeneity revisited from a multiscale and multitaxa approach

Biological Conservation

Volumn 166, Issue , 2013, Pages 212-220

  Gossner, Martin M ^a   Getzin, Stephan ^b,d   Lange, Markus ^c,e   Pašalić, Esther ^c   Türke, Manfred ^a   Wiegand, Kerstin ^b   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beetles; Ecosystem function; Multiplicative diversity partitioning; Q Metric; Spatial scale; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENTOMOLOGY; GUILD; HETEROGENEITY; NESTEDNESS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TURNOVER;

GERMANY;

EID: 84881261575     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.06.033     Document Type: Article

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