Testing the effectiveness of discrete and continuous environmental diversity as a surrogate for species diversity

• Published in: Ecological indicators Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 138 - 149
• Main Authors: Hortal, Joaquín, Araújo, Miguel B., Lobo, Jorge M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 2009
• Subjects: Amphibians; Biodiversity surrogates; Conservation planning; Environmental diversity (ED); Europe; Iberian Peninsula; Indicators; Reptiles; Reserve selection; Scale; Europe, Iberian Peninsula; Europe; Reptiles; Iberian Peninsula; Environmental diversity (ED); Biodiversity surrogates; Conservation planning; Europe; Scale; Reserve selection; Amphibians; Indicators

Biodiversity surrogates are needed because detailed data on the distributions of species and communities is very limited. Among alternative surrogate strategies there is an environmental diversity (ED) framework, which uses the p-median model to sample environmental space as evenly as possible. The...