When and why do non-neutral metacommunities appear neutral?

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 318-331

  Walker, Steven C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Competition; Metacommunities; Neutral theory; Niche theory; Species diversity; Species abundance distributions; Stochastic modeling; Two guild model

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOCHASTICITY;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC DRIFT; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SPECIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 34047163635     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2006.12.008     Document Type: Article

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