Null versus neutral models: What's the difference?

Ecography

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 793-800

  Gotelli, N J ^a   McGill, Brian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION; MIGRATION; NICHE PARTITIONING; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750362876     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0906-7590.04714.x     Document Type: Review

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