The effect of colonization and competition processes on the relation between disturbance and diversity in plant communities

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-12

  Cordonnier, Thomas ^a,b   Courbaud, Benoît ^b   Franc, Alain ^a,c  

^a Dept d'Ecophysiol Veg   (France)

^b Cemagref   (France)

^c UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

Author keywords

Competition colonization trade off; Founder control; Immigration; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Negative frequency dependence; Patch model; Species richness

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISTURBANCE; IMMIGRATION; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; META-ANALYSIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SESSILE SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; IMMIGRATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FOUNDER EFFECT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33749265486     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.05.028     Document Type: Article

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