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Xubin Pan1

  • 1Institute of Plant Quarantine, Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine, Beijing, 100029, China. xubin.hu.pan@gmail.com.

BMC Ecology
|October 9, 2016
PubMed
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Keywords:
Endemics-area relationshipExtinction rateOverlap indexOverlap rateOverlap-area relationshipPower lawRandom replacementReal total areaSampling rate

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