Separating the effect of mechanisms shaping species-abundance distributions at multiple scales in a subtropical forest

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 236-244

  Cheng, Jiajia ^a,b   Mi, Xiangcheng ^a   Nadrowski, Karin ^c   Ren, Haibao ^a   Zhang, Jintun ^b   Ma, Keping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; CONSPECIFIC; DISPERSAL; HETEROGENEITY; NICHE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SAMPLING; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STOCHASTICITY; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

CHINA;

EID: 84855914855     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19428.x     Document Type: Article

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