Details zur Publikation |
Kategorie | Textpublikation |
Referenztyp | Zeitschriften |
DOI | 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00242-2 |
Titel (primär) | Woody plants in Kenya: expanding the Higher-Taxon Approach |
Autor | Prinzing, A.; Klotz, S.; Stadler, J.; Brandl, R. |
Quelle | Biological Conservation |
Erscheinungsjahr | 2003 |
Department | BZF |
Band/Volume | 110 |
Heft | 3 |
Seite von | 307 |
Seite bis | 314 |
Sprache | englisch |
Abstract | Information on species diversity is urgently needed but often unavailable. Conservation biologists have therefore used the 'Higher-Taxon Approach' to predict the distribution of a-diversity of species from the diversities of higher taxa. We expanded this approach. We studied the Kenyan woody plant flora on a 56 x 56 km grid basis and found that the distribution of species a-diversity could be predicted precisely even from ordinal diversity. In contrast, the distribution of species beta-diversity was difficult to predict even from the genus level, although within biogeographic zones the prediction improved. The spatial scale of species alpha-diversity could be predicted precisely only from genus level, and was hardly predictable from ordinal level. The spatial scale of species beta-diversity was roughly predictable from genus to ordinal levels. Overall, the Higher-Taxon Approach could be expanded to a rough prediction of the spatial scale of species diversities. But, the approach only poorly predicted the spatial distribution of species beta-diversity. ( |
dauerhafte UFZ-Verlinkung | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=5124 |
Prinzing, A., Klotz, S., Stadler, J., Brandl, R. (2003): Woody plants in Kenya: expanding the Higher-Taxon Approach Biol. Conserv. 110 (3), 307 - 314 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00242-2 |