Community assembly along a species pool gradient: Implications for multiple-scale patterns of species diversity

Population Ecology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 137-147

  Fukami, Tadashi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Dispersal; Invasion resistance; Local and regional diversity; Lotka Volterra systems; Species saturation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DISPERSAL; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES POOL;

EID: 4644231392     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-004-0182-z     Document Type: Article

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