On the species-pool hypothesis and on the quasi-neutral concept of plant community diversity

Folia Geobotanica

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-8

  Zobel, Kristjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES POOL;

EID: 0035027422     PISSN: 12119520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02803133     Document Type: Article

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