Stability of forest biodiversity

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6940, 2003, Pages 635-638

  Clark, James S ^a   McLachlan, Jason S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY;

GEOGRAPHICAL SCALES;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); STABILITY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITION; ECOLOGY; FOREST; GEOGRAPHY; HYPOTHESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORTH AMERICA; POLLEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TREES;

EID: 0038511184     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01632     Document Type: Article

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