Beta diversity in spatially implicit neutral models: A new way to assess species migration

American Naturalist

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 116-127

  Munoz, François ^a,b   Couteron, Pierre ^a,b   Ramesh, B R ^a  

^a FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY   (India)

^b UMR AMAP   (France)

Author keywords

Diversity partitioning; Gst; Immigration rate; Sampling; Similarity estimators; Spatially implicit neutral model

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; IMMIGRATION; MIGRATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES POOL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; GENETIC SPECIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 46349102759     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/587842     Document Type: Article

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