Do fitness-equalizing tradeoffs lead to neutral communities?

Theoretical Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 181-194

  Ostling, Annette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Competition; Life history tradeoff; Macroecology; Species abundance distribution; Stochastic community models

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; LIFE HISTORY; MACROECOLOGY; NICHE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); STOCHASTICITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84859211548     PISSN: 18741738     EISSN: 18741746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12080-010-0107-8     Document Type: Article

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