A new frontier in biodiversity inventory: A proposal for estimators of phylogenetic and functional diversity

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 452-461

  Cardoso, Pedro ^a,b   Rigal, François ^b   Borges, Paulo A V ^b   Carvalho, José C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Accumulation curves; Alpha diversity; Arthropods; Azores; European mammals; Extrapolation; Functional diversity; Nonparametric estimators; Phylogenetic diversity; Sampling bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900538902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12173     Document Type: Article

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