Limiting similarity and functional diversity along environmental gradients

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 272-281

  Schwilk, Dylan W ^a   Ackerly, David D ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Community assembly; Diversity; Gradients; Limiting similarity; Neutral theory; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; NICHE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 15444374296     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00720.x     Document Type: Article

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