Disentangling niche and neutral influences on community assembly: Assessing the performance of community phylogenetic structure tests

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 949-960

  Kembel, Steven W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Community phylogenetic structure; Dispersal; Filtering; Limiting similarity; Metacommunity; Neutral; Niche; Null model

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; NICHE; PHYLOGENETICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELATEDNESS; SIMULATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; PHYLOGENY;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 68849099915     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01354.x     Document Type: Article

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