Species-area curves, spatial aggregation, and habitat specialization in tropical forests

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 81-99

  Plotkin, Joshua B ^a   Potts, Matthew D ^b   Leslie, Nandi ^a   Manokaran, N ^c   Lafrankie, James ^d   Ashton, Peter S ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GAP DYNAMICS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034619426     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.2000.2158     Document Type: Article

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