Plant β-diversity in fragmented rain forests: Testing floristic homogenization and differentiation hypotheses

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1449-1458

  Arroyo Rodríguez, Víctor ^a   Rös, Matthias ^b   Escobar, Federico ^b   Melo, Felipe P L ^c   Santos, Bráulio A ^d   Tabarelli, Marcelo ^c   Chazdon, Robin ^e  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Compositional dissimilarity; Diversity partitioning; Environmental filtering; Habitat fragmentation; Multiscale analysis; Secondary succession; Wet forest

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DEFORESTATION; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EDGE EFFECT; FLORISTICS; FOREST COVER; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HOMOGENEITY; LAND USE CHANGE; LOGGING (TIMBER); MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFOREST; SAMPLING; SECONDARY SUCCESSION;

LOS TUXTLAS; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; VERACRUZ;

EID: 84885864436     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12153     Document Type: Article

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