Can high tree species richness be explained by Hubbell's null model?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 193-199

  Yu, Douglas W ^a   Terborgh, John W ^b   Potts, Matthew D ^c  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Colonization; Ecological drift; Null model; Rare species; Species diversity; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001517626     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1998.00036.x     Document Type: Article

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