Quantifying the importance of local niche-based and stochastic processes to tropical tree community assembly

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 760-769

  Shipley, Bill ^a   Timothy Paine, C E ^b   Baraloto, Christopher ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Campus Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Community Assembly by Trait Selection, CATS; Demographic stochasticity; Dispersal limitation; Environmental filtering; French Guiana; Functional traits; Maxent; Neutral assembly; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; METAPOPULATION; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FRENCH GUIANA; STATISTICS; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ECOSYSTEM; FRENCH GUIANA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

FRENCH GUIANA;

EID: 84861352842     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0944.1     Document Type: Article

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