Quantifying and interpreting nestedness in habitat islands: A synthetic analysis of multiple datasets

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 392-404

  Matthews, Thomas J ^a,b   Cottee Jones, H Eden W ^a   Whittaker, Robert J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anti nestedness; Conservation biogeography; Fragmentation; Habitat islands; Island biogeography; Minimum set problem; Nestedness; NODF; Null communities; Strategic conservation planning

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATA SET; EXTINCTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NESTEDNESS; PATCH USE; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84924036985     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12298     Document Type: Article

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