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Habitat covariates do not artificially cause a negative correlation between native and non‐native species richness
Author(s) -
Beaury Evelyn M.,
Finn John T.,
Corbin Jeffrey D.,
Bradley Bethany A.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ecology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.852
H-Index - 265
eISSN - 1461-0248
pISSN - 1461-023X
DOI - 10.1111/ele.13782
Subject(s) - species richness , ecology , habitat , body size and species richness , introduced species , invasive species , resistance (ecology) , species diversity , vegetation (pathology) , biology , medicine , pathology
When analyzing biotic resistance/diversity‐invasibility, including predictors of species richness may result in a false negative correlation between native and non‐native richness. However, reanalysis of vegetation surveys shows that the negative effect of native richness is statistically significant whether or not predictors of species richness are included.