Testing for local species saturation with nonindependent regional species pools

Ecology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 198-206

  Fox, Jeremy W ^a   McGrady Steed, Jill ^a   Petchey, Owen L ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Invasibility; Local versus regional species richness; Microcosms; Monte Carlo test; Protists; Species interactions; Species saturation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SATURATION; SPECIES POOL; SPECIES RICHNESS; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 0034031745     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2000.00147.x     Document Type: Article

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