Three evolutionary hypotheses for the hump-shaped productivity-diversity curve

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 379-392

  VanderMeulen, Mark A ^a,b   Hudson, André J ^a,c   Scheiner, Samuel M ^a,d  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c Grand Falls Windsor   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Extinction; Hump shaped curve; Population size; Productivity; Speciation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001735817     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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