Niche versus chance and tree diversity in forest gaps

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 183-188

  Brokaw, Nicholas ^a   Busing, Richard T ^b  

^a Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GAP DYNAMICS; NICHE PARTITIONING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOCHASTICITY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; TREE;

EID: 0034193957     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(00)01822-X     Document Type: Review

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