The return of the variance: Intraspecific variability in community ecology

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 244-252

  Violle, Cyrille ^a,b   Enquist, Brian J ^a,c   McGill, Brian J ^d   Jiang, Lin ^e   Albert, Cécile H ^f,g   Hulshof, Catherine ^a   Jung, Vincent ^h,i   Messier, Julie ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

ⁱ Cemagref   (France)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Functional trait; Intraspecific variation; Mean field approach; Species coexistence; Species diversity; T statistics; Variance

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECADAL VARIATION; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; FIELD SURVEY; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY;

EID: 84858622377     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.11.014     Document Type: Review

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