Demographic trade-offs in a neutral model explain death-rate-abundanee-rank relationship

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-38

  Lin, Kui ^a   Zhang, Da Yong ^a   He, Fangliang ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecological equivalence; Fitness invariance; Life history trade offs; Lottery model; Neutral theory; Species coexistence; Time of coexistence

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY; MORTALITY; TRADE-OFF;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRTH RATE; ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIRTH RATE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 63849310341     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-2079.1     Document Type: Article

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