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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2014-12-01
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Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1313 |