Non-neutral vegetation dynamics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Marani, Marco ^a   Zillio, Tommaso ^b   Belluco, Enrica ^a   Silvestri, Sonia ^c   Maritan, Amos ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c Magistrato alle Acque di Venezia   (Italy)

^d Unita' di Padova ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLONING; ECOSYSTEM; ITALY; LAGOON; MODEL; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; SALT MARSH; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; STATISTICS;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; ITALY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 34547981055     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000078     Document Type: Article

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