Multifaceted diversity-area relationships reveal global hotspots of mammalian species, trait and lineage diversity

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 836-847

  Mazel, Florent ^a   Guilhaumon, François ^b   Mouquet, Nicolas ^c   Devictor, Vincent ^c   Gravel, Dominique ^d   Renaud, Julien ^a   Cianciaruso, Marcus Vinicius ^e   Loyola, Rafael ^e   Diniz Filho, José Alexandre Felizola ^e   Mouillot, David ^b,f   Thuiller, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^f JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation biogeography; Diversity indices; Functional diversity area relationship; Hill's numbers; Mammals; Phylogenetic diversity area relationship; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOREGION; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 84903772015     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12158     Document Type: Article

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