Sampling bias inverts ecogeographical relationships in island reptiles

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1303-1313

  Ficetola, Gentile Francesco ^a,b   Cagnetta, Massimo ^a   Padoa Schioppa, Emilio ^a   Quas, Anita ^c   Razzetti, Edoardo ^d   Sindaco, Roberto ^e   Bonardi, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c EMLYON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^e Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Carmagnola   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Biodiversity surveys; Detection probability; Herpetological atlas; Island biogeography; Virtual ecologist; Wallacean shortfall; Zero inflated models

Indexed keywords

GABAZA; REPTILIA;

EID: 84908499624     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12201     Document Type: Article

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