Interpreting the replacement and richness difference components of beta diversity

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1324-1334

  Legendre, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Community composition data; Community ecology; Dissimilarity coefficients; Local contributions to beta diversity; Replacement; Richness difference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908473465     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12207     Document Type: Article

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