Do species assemblages ever recur?

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 471-474

  Wilson, J Bastow ^a   Ullmann, Isolde ^b   Bannister, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assembly rules; Association; Community; Predictability; Randomness; Sampling; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000224002     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2261208     Document Type: Conference Paper

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