Estimating parameters of neutral communities: From one single large to several small samples

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2482-2488

  Munoz, François ^a   Couteron, Pierre ^a,b   Ramesh, B R ^a   Etienne, Rampal S ^c  

^a FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY   (India)

^b UMR AMAP   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Dispersal limitation; Etienne's sampling formula; Ewens' sampling formula; India; Neutral theory; Sampling; Wet evergreen tropical forest

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISPERSAL; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVERGREEN FOREST; MIGRATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

EID: 34548531864     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0049.1     Document Type: Article

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