Neutral theory and relative species abundance in ecology

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6952, 2003, Pages 1035-1037

  Volkov, Igor ^a   Banavar, Jayanth R ^a   Hubbell, Stephen P ^b,c   Maritan, Amos ^d,e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d SISSA   (Italy)

^e INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY;

BIOGEOGRAPHY;

ECOLOGY;

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES INVENTORY; TREE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRTH; DEATH; ECOLOGY; GENE MUTATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; PANAMA; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THEORY;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FREQUENCY; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

PANAMA;

MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 0042865997     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01883     Document Type: Article

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