The need for richness-independent measures of turnover when delineating biogeographical regions

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 417-420

  Leprieur, Fabien ^a   Oikonomou, Anthi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

3 index; sim index; Beta diversity; Bioregionalization; Clustering; Compositional dissimilarity; Freshwater fishes; Species richness; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892492747     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12266     Document Type: Letter

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