Potential Global-Local Inconsistency in Species-Area Relationships Fitting

The Species-Area Relationship (SAR) has been widely employed to assess species diversity and predict species extinction. Thus far, although many functions were proposed to fit SAR based on field observations or simulation results, the shape of SAR curve has been debated extensively over decades. Her...

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Main Authors: Xubin Pan, Xiuling Zhang, Feng Wang, Shuifang Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.01282/full