Reply to Chen and Schmera: Partitioning beta diversity into replacement and nestednessresultant components is not controversial

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 52, 2015, Pages E7162-

  Murray, Kris A ^a   Baselga, Andrés ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; INFECTION; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS;

EID: 84952684865     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1522279113     Document Type: Letter

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