Demographic analysis of Hubbell's neutral theory of biodiversity

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 258, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 274-280

  Allouche, Omri ^a   Kadmon, Ronen ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Community dynamics; Demography; Ecological drift; Individual based model; Mainland island model; Metacommunity dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; IMMIGRATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORTALITY; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 64749083800     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.12.024     Document Type: Article

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