Scaling pairwise β-diversity and α-diversity with area

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2299-2309

  Mokany, Karel ^a   Jones, Mirkka M ^b   Harwood, Thomas D ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Alpha diversity; Beta diversity; Community; Compositional dissimilarity; Panama; Prediction; Rain forest; Richness; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; PREDICTION; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 84888067425     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12175     Document Type: Article

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