How neutral is ecology?

Biotropica

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 631-633

  Ter Steege, Hans ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ecology; Neutral model; Tree diversity; Tropical rain forests

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STOCHASTICITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 78149240676     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00701.x     Document Type: Article

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