Community-wide assembly patterns unmasked: The importance of species' differing geographical ranges

American Naturalist

Volumn 148, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 997-1015

  Stone, Lewi ^a   Dayan, Tamar ^a   Simberloff, Daniel ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY PATTERN; GEOGRAPHICAL RANGE; RODENT COMMUNITY;

USA, (WEST);

EID: 0030303319     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/285968     Document Type: Article

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