Species coexistence in a variable world

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 828-839

  Gravel, Dominique ^a   Guichard, Frédéric ^b   Hochberg, Michael E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Ecological drift; Extinction risk; Neutral theory; Niche; Nonlinear averaging; Stability; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXTINCTION RISK; GROWTH RATE; NICHE PARTITIONING; NONLINEARITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FERTILITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FERTILITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 79960412105     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01643.x     Document Type: Review

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