Slight differences among individuals and the unified neutral theory of biodiversity

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 199-203

  Fuentes, Marcelino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deleterious mutation; Dispersal; Ecological community; Ecological drift; Neutral community; Spatial ecology; Species coexistence

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; MUTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALGORITHMS; ECOLOGY; MUTATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4644259679     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2004.06.003     Document Type: Article

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