From plant traits to plant communities: A statistical mechanistic approach to biodiversity

Science

Volumn 314, Issue 5800, 2006, Pages 812-814

  Shipley, Bill ^a   Vile, Denis ^a,b   Garnier, Éric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

CHRONOSEQUENCE; PLANT TRAITS; SECONDARY SUCCESSION;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; STATISTICAL CONCEPT;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHRONOSEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENT; FRANCE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 33750723839     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1131344     Document Type: Article

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