A georeferenced implementation of weighted endemism

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 845-852

  Guerin, Greg R ^a   Ruokolainen, Lasse ^b   Lowe, Andrew J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c Water Resources Group   (Australia)

Author keywords

Area of occupancy; Extent of occurrence; Interquartile range; Minimum convex polygon; Nonparametric significance test; Phylogenetic endemism; R function; Range restriction; Species ranges; Weighted endemism

Indexed keywords

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EID: 84937042490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12361     Document Type: Article

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