Phylogenetic generalised dissimilarity modelling: A new approach to analysing and predicting spatial turnover in the phylogenetic composition of communities

Ecography

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 21-32

  Rosauer, Dan F ^a,b   Ferrier, Simon ^a,c   Williams, Kristen J ^a,c   Manion, Glenn ^a,d   Keogh, J Scott ^a,b   Laffan, Shawn W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DIVERGENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FROG; GENERALIST; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PREDATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

AUSTRALIA;

ANURA; HARNESS; MYOBATRACHIDAE; PHYLO;

EID: 84892443093     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00466.x     Document Type: Article

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