Beta diversity of vascular plants and its influencing factors on islands in the Thousand Island Lake

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 34, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 3866-3872

  Peng, Si Yi ^a   Hu, Guang ^a   Yu, Ming Jian ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Jaccard dissimilarity; Land bridge islands; Non metric multidimensional scaling; Vascular plants; Diversity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DISPERSAL; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LAND BRIDGE; NATURE RESERVE; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VASCULAR PLANT;

CHINA; QIANDAO LAKE; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 84905905979     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5846/stxb201212031738     Document Type: Article

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