Testing multiple assembly rule models in avian communities on islands of an inundated lake, Zhejiang Province, China

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1330-1344

  Wang, Yanping ^a   Chen, Shuihua ^b   Ding, Ping ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Zhejiang Museum of Natural History   (China)

Author keywords

Birds; China; Community assembly rules; Constant body size ratios; Favoured states; Habitat nestedness; Island biogeography; Nestedness; Selective extinction; Thousand Island Lake

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; EXTINCTION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; NESTEDNESS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CHINA; QIANDAO LAKE; ZHEJIANG;

AVES;

EID: 79959351782     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02502.x     Document Type: Article

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