A novel genealogical approach to neutral biodiversity theory

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 170-175

  Etienne, Rampal S ^a   Olff, Man ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Biodiversity; Coalescence; Community; Genetic diversity; Hubbell; Immigration; Neutral model; Poisson lognormal; Zero sum multinomial

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; GENEALOGY; GENETIC VARIATION;

EID: 1642395100     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00572.x     Document Type: Article

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