Measuring biodiversity to explain community assembly: A unified approach

Biological Reviews

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 792-812

  Pavoine, S ^a,b   Bonsall, M B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Environmental filtering; Functional diversity; Limiting similarity; Metacommunity; Neutral models; Niche based models; Phylogenetic diversity; Spatial scales; Species richness; Trait diversity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; GENETIC SPECIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 80054013429     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2010.00171.x     Document Type: Article

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