Species turnover and geographic distance in an urban river network

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1429-1439

  Rouquette, James R ^a   Dallimer, Martin ^a,b   Armsworth, Paul R ^a,c   Gaston, Kevin J ^a,d   Maltby, Lorraine ^a   Warren, Philip H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geographic distance; Mantel tests; Riparian; River corridor; Species turnover; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; DATA ACQUISITION; DISPERSAL; LANDSCAPE; PLANT; RIVER; RIVER SYSTEM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TURNOVER; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

ENGLAND; SHEFFIELD [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

AVES; BACILLARIOPHYTA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 84885384297     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12120     Document Type: Article

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