Disentangling the environmental-heterogeneity-species-diversity relationship along a gradient of human footprint

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2084-2095

  Seiferling, Ian ^a   Proulx, Raphaë L ^a   Wirth, Christian ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Complexity; Conservation Management; Environmental heterogeneity; Fragmentation; Habitat heterogeneity hypothesis; Human footprint; Niche theory

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS;

EID: 84905668778     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1344.1     Document Type: Article

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