A phylogenetic approach to community assembly from a local species pool

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1441, 2000, Pages 363-369

  Tofts, Richard ^a,b   Silvertown, Jonathan ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CPM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Dispersal limitation; Phylogenetically independent contrasts; Phylogeny; Plant; Traits

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; PHYLOGENETICS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; GRASS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SPECIES; VEGETATION;

EID: 0034701091     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1010     Document Type: Article

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