A Spatially Explicit Neutral Model of β-Diversity in Tropical Forests

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 153-168

  Chave, Jérôme ^a,b   Leigh Jr , Egbert G ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Data diversity; Long distance dispersal; Neutral model; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

POPULATION MODELING; RAINFOREST; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 0036724922     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.2002.1597     Document Type: Article

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