Species diversity in neutral metacommunities: A network approach

Ecology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 52-62

  Economo, Evan P ^a   Keitt, Timothy H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Biodiversity scaling; Diversity partitioning; Island biogeography; Metacommunities; Neutral theory; Patch networks

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONNECTIVITY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; NETWORK ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BIODIVERSITY; GENETIC SPECIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 37149039130     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01126.x     Document Type: Article

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