Assessing the scale-specific importance of niches and other spatial processes on beta diversity: A case study from a temperate forest

Oecologia

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 377-388

  Laliberté, Etienne ^a,b   Paquette, Alain ^a   Legendre, Pierre ^a   Bouchard, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Environmental control; Neutral theory; Niche; Space time interaction; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DETECTION METHOD; NICHE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATE FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; QUEBEC; TREES;

EID: 60449104906     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1214-8     Document Type: Article

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