The effects of species pool, dispersal and competition on the diversity-productivity relationship

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 343-351

  Xiao, Sa ^a   Zobel, Martin ^b   Szava Kovats, Robert ^b   Pärtel, Meelis ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Competitive exclusion; Dispersal; Diversity productivity relationship; Evolution; Individual based model; Spatially explicit model

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISPERSAL; EVOLUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES POOL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 77954194416     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00511.x     Document Type: Article

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