Are communities saturated? On the relationship between α, β and γ diversity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 73-76

  Loreau, Michel ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Community saturation; Competition; Dispersal; Local richness; Regional richness; Scale; Species diversity; Species interactions

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; SATURATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0034104088     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2000.00127.x     Document Type: Article

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