Authors
Spyros Sfenthourakis, Kostas A Triantis
Publication date
2009/1
Journal
Diversity and Distributions
Volume
15
Issue
1
Pages
131-140
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Description
Aim To explore the causal factors leading to a significant Small Island Effect (SIE), that is, the absence of the commonly found species–area relationships below an island size, on the terrestrial isopod communities from a large number of islands.
Location Ninety islands of the Aegean Sea (Greece).
Methods The detection of a significant SIE is assessed through the application of all three methods available in the literature. Species are divided into generalists and specialists. We tested if the minimum area and the area range of each species’ occurrences differ between generalists and specialists. Next, we searched for differences in the ratios of specialists to generalists above and below the SIE threshold, and tested their cumulative ratios when islands are arranged according to increasing area, altitude or habitat diversity in order to identify the threshold where they become statistically indistinguishable from the …
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S Sfenthourakis, KA Triantis - Diversity and Distributions, 2009