Resolving the biodiversity paradox

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 647-659

  Clark, James S ^a,b   Dietze, Mike ^a,b   Chakraborty, Sukhendu ^c   Agarwal, Pankaj K ^c   Ibanez, Ines ^a,b   LaDeau, Shannon ^a,b   Wolosin, Mike ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Hierarchical models; Neutral models; Stochasticity; Tradeoffs

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COEXISTENCE; COLONIZATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); LIFE HISTORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RESOURCE USE;

ADAPTATION; BIODIVERSITY; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BIODIVERSITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 34347231959     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01041.x     Document Type: Review

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