Spatial patterns of species richness and functional diversity in Costa Rican terrestrial mammals: Implications for conservation

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 43-56

  González Maya, José F ^a,b   Víquez R, Luis R ^a   Arias Alzate, Andrés ^c   Belant, Jerrold L ^d   Ceballos, Gerardo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b Proyecto de Conservation de Aguas y Tierras   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biogeography; Functional traits; Geographically weighted regression; Ordinary least squares spatially explicit patterns

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BAT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RODENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

COSTA RICA;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84954449252     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12373     Document Type: Article

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