Multifaceted Analysis of Patch-Level Plant Diversity in Response to Landscape Spatial Pattern and History on Mediterranean Dunes

Ecosystems

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 850-864

  Malavasi, Marco ^a   Conti, Luisa ^b   Carboni, Marta ^c   Cutini, Maurizio ^b   Acosta, Alicia T R ^b  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

diversity facets; landscape change; Mediterranean coastal dunes; mixed effect models; partitioning of diversity; plant diversity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DUNE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NICHE PARTITIONING; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ITALY;

EID: 84961654584     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-016-9971-4     Document Type: Article

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