A strong test of a maximum entropy model of trait-based community assembly

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 507-517

  Shipley, Bill ^a   Laughlin, Daniel C ^b   Sonnier, Grégory ^a,c   Otfinowski, Rafael ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^d PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arizona; Coconino National Forest; Community assembly; Community weighted mean traits; Maxent; Maximum entropy; Natural selection; Ponderosa pine; Species sorting; Understory herbs; USA

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; CORRELATION; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; HERB; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RARE SPECIES; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES POOL; UNDERSTORY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENTROPY; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

ARIZONA; ECOSYSTEM; ENTROPY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

ARIZONA; COCONINO NATIONAL FOREST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955546984     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0394.1     Document Type: Article

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