treeNODF: Nestedness to phylogenetic, functional and other tree-based diversity metrics

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 563-572

  Melo, Adriano S ^a   Cianciaruso, Marcus V ^a   Almeida Neto, Mário ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bats; Community phylogenetics; Ecophylogenetics; Functional diversity; Metacommunities; Nested overlap based on decreasing fill; NODF; Phylogenetic diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902117341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12185     Document Type: Article

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