Drivers of lowland rain forest community assembly, species diversity and forest structure on islands in the tropical South Pacific

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-95

  Keppel, Gunnar ^a   Buckley, Yvonne M ^a,b   Possingham, Hugh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cyclones; Disturbance; Endemism; Hurricanes; Island biogeography; Neutral theory; Species composition

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; DISTURBANCE; ENDEMISM; HURRICANE; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; RAINFOREST;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 72249086847     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01595.x     Document Type: Article

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