Using landscape history to predict biodiversity patterns in fragmented landscapes

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1221-1233

  Ewers, Robert M ^a   Didham, Raphael K ^b,c   Pearse, William D ^a,d,e   Lefebvre, Véronique ^a   Rosa, Isabel M D ^a   Carreiras, João M B ^f   Lucas, Richard M ^g   Reuman, Daniel C ^a,h  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^g ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance dissimilarity curve; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat loss; Landscape divergence hypothesis; Nested communities; Neutral model; Random sampling; Spatial autocorrelation; Spatial insurance; Vicariance model

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DIVERGENCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HABITAT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SAMPLING; VICARIANCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAZIL; DISTANCE-DISSIMILARITY CURVE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE DIVERGENCE HYPOTHESIS; METHODOLOGY; NESTED COMMUNITIES; NEUTRAL MODEL; PHYLOGENY; RANDOM SAMPLING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION; SPATIAL INSURANCE; VICARIANCE MODEL;

DISTANCE-DISSIMILARITY CURVE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE DIVERGENCE HYPOTHESIS; NESTED COMMUNITIES; NEUTRAL MODEL; RANDOM SAMPLING; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION; SPATIAL INSURANCE; VICARIANCE MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84883788973     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12160     Document Type: Article

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