Are ground beetles neutral?

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 411-420

  Ulrich, Werner ^a   Zalewski, Marcin ^b  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Carabidae; Co occurrence; Colonisation; Ecological drift; Nestedness; Neutral model; Species abundance distribution; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 34547554017     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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