The emergence of diversity in plant communities;Emergence de la diversite dans les communautes de plantes

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences - Serie III

Volumn 323, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 129-139

  Levin, Simon A ^a   Muller Landau, Helene C ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Dispersal; Evolutionary stable strategy; Heterogeneity; Life history; Seed size

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GAME THEORY; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLANT; REVIEW;

EID: 0034097140     PISSN: 07644469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0764-4469(00)00113-X     Document Type: Article

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