Unsaturation and regional influences on species richness in ecological communities: A review of the evidence

Ecoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 303-315

  Cornell, Howard V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Convergence; Density compensation; Invasion resistance; Local control; Proportional sampling; Regional control; Saturation; Species richness; Voltera Gause

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; LIMITING FACTOR; SATURATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0033491141     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1999.11682532     Document Type: Review

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