Plant traits, species pools and the prediction of relative abundance in plant communities: A maximum entropy approach

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 318-331

  Sonnier, Grégory ^a,b   Shipley, Bill ^a   Navas, Marie Laure ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Maximum entropy; Neutral models

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENTROPY; GENETIC VARIATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PREDICTION; SPECIES POOL;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77949749435     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2009.01145.x     Document Type: Article

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