Estimating extinction from species-area relationships: Why the numbers do not add up

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1905-1912

  He, Fangliang ^a,b   Hubbell, Stephen ^c,d  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Conservation biology; Endemics area relationship; Extinction; Malaysia; Pasoh Nature Reserve; Power law model; Species area relationships (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; POWER LAW; SAMPLING; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TREE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES;

MALAYSIA; NEGERI SEMBILAN; PASOH FOREST RESERVE; WEST MALAYSIA;

EID: 84884867129     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1795.1     Document Type: Article

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