Variation in species richness: Towards a unification of hypotheses

Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 511-530

  Palmer, Michael W ^a,b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Competitive Exclusion Principle; Gause's principle; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Resource ratio hypothesis; Species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001149347     PISSN: 00155551     EISSN: 18749348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02883148     Document Type: Article

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