Confronting different models of community structure to species-abundance data: A Bayesian model comparison

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 493-504

  Etienne, Rampal S ^a   Olff, Han ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Broken stick model; Community; Neutral model; Niche based model; Poisson lognormal distribution; Zero sum multinomial distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MODELING; NICHE; NICHE PARTITIONING; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 15444367312     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00745.x     Document Type: Article

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