A mélange of curves - Further dialogue about species-area relationships

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 479-484

  Scheiner, Samuel M ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha diversity; Beta diversity; Scale; Species accumulation curve; Species area curve

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; SAMPLING; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; NESTING;

EID: 8644290930     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2004.00127.x     Document Type: Article

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