Reconciling niche and neutrality through the Emergent Group approach

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 71-78

  Hérault, Bruno ^a,b  

^a Centre d'Ecologie Végétale et d'Hydrologie   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biological traits; Ecological equivalency; Neutral theory; Niche differentiation; Redundancy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIODIVERSITY; DIVERGENCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; NEUTRALIZATION; NICHE; SEED SIZE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC LEVEL;

EID: 36049022825     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: 16180437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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