The implicit assumption of symmetry and the species abundance distribution

Ecology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-105

  Alonso, David ^a,b   Ostling, Annette ^a   Etienne, Rampal S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diversity patterns; Logseries; Neutrality; Species abundance distribution; Stochastic community models; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; NICHE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; SYMMETRY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SELECTION BIAS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 37849002779     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01127.x     Document Type: Review

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