Assembly rules within a contingent ecology

Oikos

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 402-416

  Belyea, Lisa R ^a,b   Lancaster, Jill ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0032878646     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546646     Document Type: Short Survey

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