Pattern without bias: Local-regional richness relationship revisited

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1986-1992

  Szava Kovats, Robert C ^a   Ronk, Argo ^a   Partel, Meelis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Effect size; Local richness; Log ratio; Logistic; Null hypothesis; Regional richness; Regression

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; BIODIVERSITY; DATA SET; META-ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84884847302     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0244.1     Document Type: Article

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