Species abundance distribution and dynamics in two locally coupled communities

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 253, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 739-748

  Babak, Petro ^a   He, Fangliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diffusion approximation; Kolmogorov Fokker Planck forward equation; Neutral theory of biodiversity; Two local communities

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COUPLING; IMMIGRATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; IMMIGRATION; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 47849113938     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.04.031     Document Type: Article

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