Properties of similarity indices under niche-based and dispersal-based processes in communities

American Naturalist

Volumn 177, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 589-604

  Réjou Méchain, Maxime ^a,b   Hardy, Olivier J ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Habitat filtering; Neutral model; Spatially explicit neutral model; Species turnover; Torus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; FILTRATION; HABITAT TYPE; HETEROGENEITY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION GENETICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC SELECTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79955423707     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/659627     Document Type: Article

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