Multiplicative partition of true diversity yields independent alpha and beta components; additive partition does not.
Baselga
Andrés
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Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, c/Lope Gómez de Marzoa s/n, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain. andres.baselga@usc.es
D044822:Biodiversity; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008954:Models, Biological; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011157:Population Dynamics