Neutrality and the response of rare species to environmental variance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Benedetti Cecchi, Lisandro ^a   Bertocci, Iacopo ^a   Vaselli, Stefano ^b   Maggi, Elena ^a   Bulleri, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TURNOVER TIME; VARIANCE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ALGAE; INVERTEBRATA;

ALGAE; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 50649108556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002777     Document Type: Article

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