The species-area relationship derived from species-specific incidence functions

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 903-909

  Ovaskainen, Otso ^a   Hanski, Ilkka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Colonization extinction dynamics; Environmental stochasticity and SAR; Incidence function; Mainland island model; Power law species area relationship; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; POWER LAW; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0141706935     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00517.x     Document Type: Article

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