Species-area relationships explained by the joint effects of dispersal limitation and habitat heterogeneity

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3033-3041

  Shen, Guochun ^a,b   Yu, Mingjian ^a,b   Hu, Xin Sheng ^c   Mi, Xiangcheng ^d   Ren, Haibao ^d   Sun, I Fang ^e   Ma, Keping ^d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^e TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Barro Colorado Island, Panama; Dispersal limitation; Gutianshan National Nature Reserve, China; Heterogeneous habitat; Point pattern modeling; Poisson processes; Species area relationship (SAR); Subtropical forest; Thomas processes; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HETEROGENEITY; NATURE RESERVE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHINA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; PANAMA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; CHINA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PANAMA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; CHINA; GUTIAN MOUNTAIN NATURE RESERVE; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; PANAMA [PANAMA (NTN)]; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 72449198080     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1646.1     Document Type: Article

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