Linking dispersal, immigration and scale in the neutral theory of biodiversity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1385-1393

  Chisholm, Ryan A ^a   Lichstein, Jeremy W ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal kernel; Edge effects; Hubbell; Immigration; Scale; Seed dispersal; Spatially implicit and explicit neutral models; Unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; EDGE EFFECT; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEED DISPERSAL; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIMESCALE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PANAMA; PERU; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PANAMA; PERU; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES;

EID: 70449432744     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01389.x     Document Type: Article

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