Reconciling neutral community models and environmental filtering: Theory and an empirical test

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1308-1320

  Jabot, Franck ^a,b   Etienne, Rampal S ^c   Chave, Jérôme ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; IMMIGRATION; MAMMAL; METAPOPULATION; ONTOGENY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); TROPICAL FOREST;

CENTRAL AMERICA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

MAMMALIA;

EID: 49649113608     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16724.x     Document Type: Article

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