Permanence and the assembly of ecological communities

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 762-775

  Law, Richard ^a   Daniel Morton, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Coexistence; Community assembly; Invasion resistance; Lotka volterra dynamics; Permanence; Species pools; Stability; Succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001159093     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265500     Document Type: Article

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