Stochastic and deterministic processes jointly structure tropical arthropod communities

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 277-284

  Farnon Ellwood, M D ^a   Manica, Andrea ^b   Foster, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community structure; Interspecific competition; Neutral theory; Niches; Rainforest arthropods; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ASSEMBLY RULE; DECOMPOSITION; DISPERSAL; EPIPHYTE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; RAINFOREST; SEASONAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

ARTHROPODA;

EID: 62149083688     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01284.x     Document Type: Article

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