Upscaling biodiversity: estimating the species–area relationship from small samples

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 170-187

  Kunin, William E ^a,b   Harte, John ^c   He, Fangliang ^d   Hui, Cang ^e   Jobe, R Todd ^f,p   Ostling, Annette ^g   Polce, Chiara ^a,q   Šizling, Arnošt ^h   Smith, Adam B ^c,i   Smith, Krister ^j   Smart, Simon M ^k   Storch, David ^h,l   Tjørve, Even ^m   Ugland, Karl Inne ⁿ   Ulrich, Werner ^o   Varma, Varun ^a,r  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (South Africa)

^f The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^h INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

ⁱ MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^j Natural History Museum Frankfurt   (Germany)

^k CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^l CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^m INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^o NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^p Signal Innovations Group   (United States)

^q JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^r UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

biodiversity estimation; methods comparison; monitoring; spatial scale; species richness; species area relationship; upscaling

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTIMATION METHOD; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PLANT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; UPSCALING;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85040781887     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1284     Document Type: Article

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