Community assembly, natural selection and maximum entropy models

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 604-609

  Shipley, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 77952540727     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17770.x     Document Type: Article

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