Disturbance, neutral theory, and patterns of beta diversity in soil communities

Abstract Beta diversity describes how local communities within an area or region differ in species composition/abundance. There have been attempts to use changes in beta diversity as a biotic indicator of disturbance, but lack of theory and methodological caveats have hampered progress. We here prop...

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Main Authors: Stefanie Maaß, Massimo Migliorini, Matthias C. Rillig, Tancredi Caruso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-12-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1313