RT Dissertation/Thesis
T1 Development of methods for the study of biodiversity based on modeling biogeographic patterns
A1 Martín Devasa, Ramiro María
K1 beta diversity
K1 biodiversty
K1 biogeographical patterns
K1 distance-decay
K1 macroecology
AB Understanding the factors affecting the spatial structure ofbiodiversity at various levels of biological organization is one ofthe main goals for ecologist. This thesis aims to develop newmethodologies to study the mechanisms driving the spatialdistribution of biological diversity as inferred frombiogeographical and macroecological patterns. It explores theusefulness of a sigmoidal function to fit the distance-decaypattern and how its shape change with the species distributionsize, a test statistic for parameters comparison, the applicationof these methods to study current large-scale diversity patternof European spiders and the extension of these methods tostudy the genetic-spatial distance relationship, using endemicspecies of Iberian leaf beetles as case-study.
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30931
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30931
LA eng
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026