Community assembly time and the relationship between local and regional species richness

Oikos

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 618-626

  Mouquet, N ^a,b   Munguia, P ^a   Kneitel, J M ^a   Miller, T E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; EQUILIBRIUM; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES POOL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0344616908     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12772.x     Document Type: Article

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