Community assembly: Alternative stable states or alternative transient states?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 973-984

  Fukami, Tadashi ^a   Nakajima, Mifuyu ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Biodiversity; Environmental gradients; Historical contingency; Plant soil feedback; Priority effect; Spatial heterogeneity; Stability; Succession; Transient dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GENERATION TIME; HETEROGENEITY; IMMIGRATION; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIORITIZATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STABILIZATION; SUCCESSION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 80052789826     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01663.x     Document Type: Article

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