A dispersal-limited sampling theory for species and alleles

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1147-1156

  Etienne, Rampal S ^a   Alonso, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial sampling; Biodiversity; Community; Dispersal limited sampling; Ewens sampling formula; Hypergeometric sampling; Neutral model; Random sampling

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISPERSAL; MODELING; POPULATION GENETICS;

EID: 27444442207     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00817.x     Document Type: Article

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