How Dispersal Limitation Shapes Species-Body Size Distributions in Local Communities

American Naturalist

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 69-83

  Etienne, Rampal S ^a   Olff, Han ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allometric scaling law; Biodiversity; Community; Macroecology; Neutral model; Niche based model

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MACROECOLOGY; NICHE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY CONSTITUTION; ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BIODIVERSITY; BODY CONSTITUTION; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 1242344037     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/380582     Document Type: Article

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