A comment on Hubbell's zero-sum ecological drift model

Oikos

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 185-192

  Ricklefs, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

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COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LONGEVITY; NEW SPECIES; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

EID: 0037907406     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12018.x     Document Type: Review

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