Independent and shared effects of environmental features and space driving avian community beta diversity across a coastal gradient in Southern Brazil

Austral Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 864-873

  Gianuca, Andros Tarouco ^a   Bastazini, Vinicius Augusto Galvão ^b   Dias, Rafael Antunes ^b   Hernández, Malva Isabel Medina ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Metacommunity; Neutral dynamics; Spatial descriptor; Species sorting; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; AVIFAUNA; CACTUS; COASTAL ZONE; DISPERSAL; DUNE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GRASSLAND; HABITAT TYPE; PARADIGM SHIFT; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOCHASTICITY;

BRAZIL;

AVES; CACTACEAE;

EID: 84888390982     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aec.12023     Document Type: Article

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