Reconciling empirical ecology with neutral community models

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1370-1377

  Holyoak, Marcel ^a   Loreau, Michel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competition; Dispersal; Macroecology; Neutral model; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FITNESS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 33746003279     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1370:REEWNC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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