Interpreting beta-diversity components over time to conserve metacommunities in highly dynamic ecosystems

Conservation Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1459-1468

  Ruhí, Albert ^a,b   Datry, Thibault ^c   Sabo, John L ^a,d  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UR MALY   (France)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

beta diversity partitioning; conservation planning; din mica de fuente sumidero; dispersal; dispersi n; ecolog a de metacomunidades; estad stica; metacommunity ecology; partici n de la beta diversidad; planificaci n de la conservaci n; source sink dynamics; statistics

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISPERSAL; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; IDENTIFICATION KEY; KEYSTONE SPECIES; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

SUMIDERO;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FRANCE; PROCEDURES; RIVER;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FRANCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RIVERS;

EID: 85019703184     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12906     Document Type: Article

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