Habitat patchiness and plant species richness

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 14 Aug 2001 English Publisher:WileyJournal:Ecology Letters, volume 4, pages 417-420 (issn: 1461-023X, eissn: 1461-0248,

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Authors: Bascompte, Jordi; Rodríguez, Miguel A.;

doi: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2001.00242.x

handle: 10261/41715

Habitat patchiness and plant species richness

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Abstract

The pattern of woody species richness decline with a decrease in woody vegetation cover was studied within a tallgrass prairie. The decline in species richness is highly non‐linear, with a well‐defined threshold below which species richness collapses. This relationship can be understood after considering information on how landscape structure changes with woody vegetation cover, and how species richness is related to landscape structure.

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University of California, Santa Barbara
United States
University of Alcalá
Spain
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
United States

Keywords

habitat heterogeneity, habitat loss, Biodiversity, patchiness, Species richness

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