Studying ecological communities from a neutral standpoint: A review of models' structure and parameter estimation

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 2603-2610

  Beeravolu, Champak R ^a,b   Couteron, Pierre ^a   Pélissier, Raphaël ^a,b   Munoz, François ^c  

^a UMR AMAP   (France)

^b FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY   (India)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Community models; Dispersal limitation; Parameter inference; Population genetics models; Unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY MODELS; DISPERSAL LIMITATION; PARAMETER INFERENCE; POPULATION GENETICS MODELS; UNIFIED NEUTRAL THEORY OF BIODIVERSITY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY MODEL; NEUTRAL THEORIES; POPULATION GENETICS;

BIODIVERSITY; CHROMOSOMES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; ECOLOGY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ASSEMBLY RULE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LITERATURE REVIEW; NICHE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MODELING; STOCHASTICITY; TYPOLOGY;

EID: 69549124237     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.06.041     Document Type: Review

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