A phylogenetic perspective on the individual species-area relationship in temperate and tropical tree communities.

Ecologists have historically used species-area relationships (SARs) as a tool to understand the spatial distribution of species. Recent work has extended SARs to focus on individual-level distributions to generate individual species area relationships (ISARs). The ISAR approach quantifies whether in...

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Main Authors: Jie Yang, Nathan G Swenson, Min Cao, George B Chuyong, Corneille E N Ewango, Robert Howe, David Kenfack, Duncan Thomas, Amy Wolf, Luxiang Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23650553/?tool=EBI