What drives community dynamics?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1669, 2009, Pages 2923-2929

  Mutshinda, Crispin M ^a   O'Hara, Robert B ^a   Woiwod, Ian P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community drivers; Compensatory dynamics; Density dependence; Environmental stochasticity; Neutrality; Niche

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DATA ACQUISITION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; NICHE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 68249119946     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0523     Document Type: Article

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