Scale decisions can reverse conclusions on community assembly processes

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 620-632

  Münkemüller, Tamara ^a   Gallien, Laure ^a   Lavergne, Sébastien ^a   Renaud, Julien ^a   Roquet, Cristina ^a   Abdulhak, Sylvain ^b   Dullinger, Stefan ^c   Garraud, Luc ^b   Guisan, Antoine ^d   Lenoir, Jonathan ^e   Svenning, Jens Christian ^f   Van Es, Jérémie ^b   Vittoz, Pascal ^d   Willner, Wolfgang ^g   Wohlgemuth, Thomas ^h   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^h   Thuiller, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^b Domaine de Charance   (France)

^c Faculty Centre of Biodiversity   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^e UFR des Sciences   (France)

^f AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^g Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses   (Austria)

^h SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Apha diversity; Assembly rules; Community ecology; Ecophylogenetics; Null models; Sampling design

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING;

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EID: 84898546552     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12137     Document Type: Article

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