Field parameterization and experimental test of the neutral theory of biodiversity

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7023, 2005, Pages 309-312

  Wootton, J Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MULTI-SPECIES COMMUNITIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ECOLOGY;

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRTH; DEATH; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; INTERTIDAL ZONE; MIGRATION; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIVALVIA; ECOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 12744262865     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03211     Document Type: Article

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