Niche and neutral models predict asymptotically equivalent species abundance distributions in high-diversity ecological communities

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 36, 2010, Pages 15821-15825

  Chisholm, Ryan A ^a   Pacala, Stephen W ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community ecology; Neutral theory; Niche theory; Relative species abundance distributions

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOSYSTEM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; PANAMA; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; ECOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 77957681915     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009387107     Document Type: Article

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