Reconciling niche and neutrality: The continuum hypothesis

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 399-409

  Gravel, Dominique ^a   Canham, Charles D ^b   Beaudet, Marilou ^a   Messier, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuum hypothesis; Lottery model; Neutral model; Niche; SORTIE ND; Species relative abundance distributions

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECOLOGICAL THEORY; NICHE; RECRUITMENT;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 33645353062     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00884.x     Document Type: Article

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