Once again on the components of pairwise beta diversity

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 32, Issue , 2016, Pages 63-68

  Podani, János ^a,b   Schmera, Dénes ^c,d  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c MTA CENTRE FOR ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Data structure; Diversity partitioning; Nestedness; Richness difference; Species replacement; Turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956639295     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2016.01.002     Document Type: Letter

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