Emergent neutrality leads to multimodal species abundance distributions

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Vergnon, Remi ^a   Van Nes, Egbert H ^a   Scheffer, Marten ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; PREDICTION; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANTHOZOA; AVES; BRACHIOPODA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84857710457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1663     Document Type: Article

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