Multi-site generalised dissimilarity modelling: using zeta diversity to differentiate drivers of turnover in rare and widespread species

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 431-442

  Latombe, Guillaume ^a   Hui, Cang ^b,c   McGeoch, Melodie A ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (South Africa)

Author keywords

alpha diversity; beta diversity; compositional turnover; generalised additive models; generalised dissimilarity modelling; I splines; richness; shape constrained additive models

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017267758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12756     Document Type: Article

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