Null model analysis of species co-occurrence patterns

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2606-2621

  Gotelli, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly rules; Checkerboard distribution; Co occurrence; Coexistence; Community structure; Competition; Monte Carlo simulation; Null model; Presence absence matrix; Randomization test; Species combinations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; INDEX METHOD; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033860925     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[2606:NMAOSC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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