Integrating the niche and neutral perspectives on community structure and dynamics

Oecologia

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 241-251

  Mutshinda, Crispin M ^a   O'Hara, Robert B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Biotic interactions; Ecological drift; Niche segregation; Niche neutral continuum

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NEUTRALIZATION; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RODENT; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIPODOMYS; ECOSYSTEM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIPODOMYS; ECOSYSTEM; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

RODENTIA;

EID: 79954416244     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1831-x     Document Type: Article

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