An empirical comparison of beta diversity indices in establishing prairies
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An empirical comparison of beta diversity indices in establishing prairies.
Whittaker (1960, 1972) first proposed the idea that species diversity has spatial components, with alpha diversity estimating diversity within individual stands (or communities) and beta diversity estimating the number of community types in an area (or in Whittaker’s terminology, ‘‘differentiation of communities along gradients’’). These two values combined make up gamma diversity. Beta diversi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ecology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0012-9658
DOI: 10.1890/09-0351.1